In my previous post in this series I covered the difference between Shape Average, Shape Peak and Shape with no Excess. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get down to configuration examples. I’ll use similar specifications to the ones I used last time: CIR = 512kbps (512,000 bps) Bc = 5,120 bps Tc = 10ms (0.001 seconds) Be = 5,120 b...
A few years ago I wrote a blog post about EIGRP and the “auto-summary” command called EIGRP No Auto Summary Command, Part 1. In that post I provided a brief description of what “auto-summary” does and demonstrated how it works by creating a basic lab. Now that you’ve seen the basics though, it is time to dig a little deeper. In the previous pos...
A little while back I posted an entry called MTU Vs MSS - Part One. At the time the plan was to follow it up with Part Two a short time later, however, here it comes over a year late :) I do apologise for that. What prompted me to get back to writing Part Two was an e-mail from a reader who asked how I came to the conclusion that using the “ip ...
Series Index I am in the process of writing a series of blog posts which will cover: Modular QoS CLI (MQC) Weighted Fair Queue (WFQ) Class-Based Weighed Fair Queuing (CBWFQ) Low Latency Queuing (LLQ) To assist readers in keeping track of these posts, I will update this page each time a new entry is published. Series Entries Here a...
In my previous post I implemented a basic QoS configuration. In this post I will demonstrate how the “bandwidth” and “priority” commands treat their respective classes, as well as how to interpret the “show policy-map interface” command output. Parent Shaper Below is the output seen when the “show policy-map interface” command is issued. The P...