bandwidth guarantee on VPN

Oct 11, 2006 1 Replies
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Have two sites connected with 4 Channelized T1's with a VPN between them controlled by two PIX's. On each side the T1's go into a 2821 router , then into the PIX, hence into a series of 2960 switches. ( see config for router below)



Client would like to guarantee bandwidth to SQL servers on one side from just some of the computers on the other.



I read in the Cisco site docs about Low Latency Queuing, Policing and Shaping, Class Based Weighted Fair Queuing (CBWFQ) - essentially all I'm finding are abstract white papers that give me no sense if they're appropriate technologies. The only really useful bit I've found was here :

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, but I see the issue hasn't yet resolved in a working config.


It occurs to me to wonder if I can associate a switch based (local) VPN with one or two of the T1's -



Any thoughts on basic strategy here, or examples of specific similar working configs would be much appreciated.



Many thanks -


Cisco 2821 (revision 53.51) with 249856K/12288K bytes of memory.



Processor board ID xxxxxxxxxxxxx


2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces


4 Serial interfaces


4 Channelized T1/PRI ports


1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module



DRAM configuration is 64 bits wide with parity enabled.


239K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.


62720K bytes of ATA CompactFlash (Read/Write)


!

boot-start-marker



boot-end-marker



!

logging buffered 51200 warnings



!

no aaa new-model



!

resource policy



!

no network-clock-participate wic 0



no network-clock-participate wic 1



ip subnet-zero



ip cef



ip domain xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



ip ssh time-out 60



!

voice-card 0



no dspfarm



controller T1 0/0/0



framing esf



linecode b8zs



channel-group 1 timeslots 1-24



!

controller T1 0/0/1



framing esf



linecode b8zs



channel-group 1 timeslots 1-24



!

controller T1 0/1/0



framing esf



linecode b8zs



channel-group 1 timeslots 1-24



!

controller T1 0/1/1



framing esf



linecode b8zs



channel-group 1 timeslots 1-24



!


interface Multilink524754



description => xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



ip address xxxxxxxxxxxx 255.255.255.252



ip access-group 100 in



no ip redirects



no ip proxy-arp



load-interval 30



no cdp enable



ppp multilink



ppp multilink group 524754



ppp multilink fragment disable



!

interface GigabitEthernet0/0



ip address xxxxxxxxxxxxx 255.255.255.240



duplex auto



speed auto



!

interface GigabitEthernet0/1



no ip address



shutdown



duplex auto



speed auto



!

interface Serial0/0/0:1



description MLPPP



no ip address



encapsulation ppp



tx-ring-limit 26



tx-queue-limit 26



no fair-queue



no cdp enable



ppp multilink



ppp multilink group 524754



!

interface Serial0/0/1:1



description MLPPP



no ip address



encapsulation ppp



tx-ring-limit 26



tx-queue-limit 26



no fair-queue



no cdp enable



ppp multilink



ppp multilink group 524754



!

interface Serial0/1/0:1



description MLPPP



no ip address



encapsulation ppp



tx-ring-limit 26



tx-queue-limit 26



no fair-queue



no cdp enable



ppp multilink



ppp multilink group 524754



!

interface Serial0/1/1:1



description MLPPP



no ip address



encapsulation ppp



tx-ring-limit 26



tx-queue-limit 26



no fair-queue



no cdp enable



ppp multilink



ppp multilink group 524754



!

ip classless



ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



!
!

ip http server



ip http authentication local



no ip http secure-server



ip http timeout-policy idle 5 life 86400 requests 10000



!

access-list 100 deny icmp any any redirect



access-list 100 deny icmp any any time-exceeded



access-list 100 deny ip xxxxxxxxxxx



access-list 100 deny ip xxxxxxxxx



access-list 100 deny ip xxxxxxxxxxx



access-list 100 deny ip xxxxxxxxxxxx



access-list 100 deny ip xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



access-list 100 deny ip xxxxxxxxxxxx



access-list 100 deny ip host 0.0.0.0 any



access-list 100 permit ip any any



no cdp run



!
!
!
!

control-plane



!

You have indicated router models and switch models, and router configurations, but you haven't mention the PIX model or PIX software version.

If you are using PIX 4/5/6 then any ToS or DSCP information that might be associated with a packet (by the switches) is going to be discarded; thus, with those versions, if you cannot get the switches to enforce the bandwidths then you will not be able to do what you want.

If you are using PIX 7 then QoS is supported over VPN (I think); It would have to be configured at the PIX level to go end-to-end. Rate controls are (if I recall correctly) supported in PIX 7.

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