Hello,
First of all, thanks for the lots of great stuff on this list. I
have
been reading the various postings for very long. Now I have got some
thought and I like to get your opinions on it.
The question reads as “Mark SCCP, MGCP, H323 and SIP signaling
traffic
to CS3. Configure only on routers and CallManager.”
The configuration on CallManager is straight forward. Regarding the
configuration on routers, the solutions I have seen use access lists
to capture interesting traffic (including h323 ras traffic at UDP
port
1719), create policy-map to mark the traffic to CS3, and apply
service
policy in the inbound direction of voice VLAN interfaces on the
various routers.
As the above doesn't take into account traffic generated from the
routers themselves, commands like 'ip qos dscp cs3 signaling' under
VoIP dial-peers and 'mgcp ip qos dscp cs3 signaling' on MGCP
gateways
are also used. I haven't seen any similar command for H323 RAS
traffic
generated from BR2 router and destined to the Gatekeeper on the HQ
router as well as H323 RAS traffic generated from the gatekeeper
(destined to the BR2 router or the CallManager gatekeeper controlled
intercluster trunk).
To provide a comprehensive solution that includes H323 RAS signaling
traffic, what I think needs to be done is, combine the marking and
queuing in the policy-map that is applied on the serial WAN
interface
in the outbound direction. While this takes care of the H323 RAS
traffic between BR2 router (H323 gateway) and HQ router (H323
gatekeeper), to take care of the H323 RAS traffic from the
gatekeeper
to CallManager, we need to create a policy-map for marking and apply
it on the server vlan interface in the outbound direction.
A sample configuration for the portion from HQ to BR2 will be like:
!
Class-map match-any Voice
match ip dscp ef
class-map match-any Signal
match protocol h323
match protocol skinny
match protocol mgcp
match protocol sip
!
! Here we have accounted for all signaling traffic specified
! in the question. If we want, we may add 'match ip dscp
! cs3' and 'match ip dscp af31' before the ‘match protocol’
commands.
! The 'match protocol' commands will be used to capture leftovers.
!
policy-map LLQ-Mark-HQ-BR2
class Voice
priority 96
compress header ip rtp
class Signal
bandwidth 40
set ip dscp cs3 ! We do the marking here.
class class-default
fair-queue
!
policy-map MQC-768
class class-default
shape average 729600 7296 0
service-policy LLQ-Mark-HQ-BR2
!
map-class frame-relay FRTS-768
service-policy output MQC-768
frame-relay fragment 960
!
interface Serial0/1.10 point-to-point
bandwidth 768
ip address 10.10.10.3 255.255.255.0
frame-relay interface-dlci 310
class FRTS-768
!
By doing this, I believe we make sure all signaling traffic from
HQ to
BR2 will be marked to CS3 before leaving the HQ router. We do the
same
on the BR2 router also for traffic going to HQ.
In my opinion, if we don't do the above, in addition to
not properly marking H323 RAS traffic to CS3, we also miss H323 RAS
traffic from the class-map Signal and the LLQ bandwidth guarantee
won’t apply to it. I say this because what I have seen was that H323
RAS traffic is by default marked as 'DSCP 0', not even AF31. If this
is the case, during congestion, RAS packets can be dropped big
time!!
I will appreciate your ideas on this.
Thanks,
Ameha Haile
P.S. By the way, I find using 'match protocol' commands in class-map
easier than using access groups and access lists. I don't have to
worry about source ports and destination ports although knowing them
is good. Could there be any other reasons, which I might be missing,
to use one method over another for matching traffic?
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