Can't configured wrr-queue on the EtherSwitch module

trienguy · ‎05-28-2008

Hi all

My customer has been using Etherswitch module as layer two for their WAN links.

I know there is a limitation for ESW

where you can't applied the Service policy out to the fastethernet ports.

so the only way we can do it is through the layer queueing.

wrr-queue as guided in this example

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Router1(config)#wrr-queue cos-map 1 0 1

Router1(config)#wrr-queue cos-map 2 2

Router1(config)#wrr-queue cos-map 3 3 4

Router1(config)#wrr-queue cos-map 4 5 6 7

!--- wrr-queue cos-map <queue-number> <cos values separated by space>

Router(config)#wrr-queue bandwidth 1 16 64 255

!--- wrr-queue bandwidth <Weight of Queue1> <Weight of Queue2>

!--- <Weight of Queue3> <Weight of Queue4>

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I have tried it on the customer's router

however it says "not configurable on slot 0"

if it is not configurable how do we can achieve voice qos on the ESW module ?

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(config)#wrr-queue cos-map 1 0 1

cos-map not configurable on the card in slot 0

The default cos map is:

CoS Value : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Priority Queue : 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4

MEL-570-RO2(config)#wrr-queue cos-map 4 5 6 7

cos-map not configurable on the card in slot 0

The default cos map is:

CoS Value : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Priority Queue : 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4

MEL-570-RO2(config)#---------------------------------

Thanks all for your feedback

pcameron · ‎06-01-2008

Have a look at this URL for some more detail about QOS support on the HWIC-ESW cards:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps259/prod_qas0900aecd802a9470_ps5854_Products_Q_and_A_Item.html

Refer to table 2

it says for the HWIC modules -

Strict Priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS Policies - Yes (limited; default values only)

Also refer here -

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5855/products_qanda_item0900aecd8016c026.shtml

check out "QoS Features" section in the above url.

And from another post -

Can anyone tell me what kind of QoS support is available on the HWICD-9-ESW? I see that the card supports 802.1Q trunking. There is also reference to prioritization based on

802.1p. Does this card support queuing per port, similar to the 4 queues we get in traditional catalyst switches? If not, how does prioritization work, do we simply place .1p tagged

frames at the front of the single hardware queue?

ANSWER to the above:

802.1p is supported on HWIC Ethernet Switch module however cos to tos mapping is not supported. This also means that all the priority set by cos value will remain on layer2

only.

And also the per-port queuing is done by hardware, user is not able to change the queuing threshold by using the " wrr-queue cos-map" command like what they do on catalyst switch .

Even though HWIC Ethernet switch module does not allow wrr-queue cos-map changes, you still could see the QoS setting.

Below is the example output.

pan-3825-1#show wrr-queue cos-map

CoS Value : 0 1 2

3 4 5 6 7

Priority Queue : 1 1 2 2 3 3

4 4

CoS Value : 0 1 2

3 4 5 6 7

Priority Queue : 1 1 2 2 3 3

4 4

Otherwise , you may want to consider using the HWIC-2FE card - this is a full layer 3 device so it will allow normal QOS features to be configued -

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps5854/product_data_sheet0900aecd80581fe6_ps5853_Products_Data_Sheet.html

The HWIC-FE cards work on 1800, 2800 and 3800. There are some limitations on the type of card and the platform it is installed in so refer to the URL for full details.