Video Conferencing Over a WAN

Hello, I am trying to troubleshoot poor video quality over a 2Mb WAN link (frame relay) The video is jerky and of relatively poor quality compared to the demonstration example. The hardware is Tandberg, the ip address of the box on network A is 172.16.1.16 and on network B it is 172.16.2.105.

The cisco configs look fine to me, after some research on the internet it seems that the problem could well be autonegotiation of the ethernet ports connected to the Tandberg boxes (apparently they should be set to 100 /Full Duplex).

I would be very grateful if someone could double check these configs for me just to be more sure that it is not a QoS problem!

Thanks in advance.

Configs (only relevant information presented) :

Router A

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ip multicast-routing

class-map match-all video-fr match access-group 107 class-map match-all video-in match access-group 106

policy-map PBX class video-in set ip dscp 34 class class-default set ip dscp 0

policy-map LLQ class video-fr priority 384 police cir 384000 conform-action set-prec-transmit 6 exceed-action drop violate-action drop

class class-default fair-queue

interface FastEthernet0/0 ip address 172.16.1.5 255.255.255.0 ip pim sparse-dense-mode speed 10 half-duplex service-policy input PBX ! interface Serial0/0 bandwidth 2048 no ip address encapsulation frame-relay IETF ip route-cache flow no ip mroute-cache no fair-queue frame-relay traffic-shaping frame-relay lmi-type ansi ! interface Serial0/0.101 point-to-point ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0 ip pim sparse-dense-mode

frame-relay interface-dlci 101 class VOIPovFR ! ip flow-export version 5 ip flow-export destination 172.16.1.71 2048 ip classless ip forward-protocol udp 1551 ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.8 ip route 172.16.2.0 255.255.255.0 Serial0/0.101

ip route 172.16.254.0 255.255.255.0 Serial0/0.101 ip http server ip pim bidir-enable ip pim send-rp-announce FastEthernet0/0 scope 16 ip pim send-rp-discovery FastEthernet0/0 scope 16

map-class frame-relay VOIPovFR no frame-relay adaptive-shaping frame-relay cir 2048000 frame-relay bc 20480 frame-relay be 0 frame-relay mincir 2048000 service-policy output LLQ

access-list 106 permit ip host 172.16.1.16 any access-list 107 permit ip any any dscp af41

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Router B

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class-map match-all video-fr match access-group 105 class-map match-all video-in match access-group 106

! ! policy-map LLQ class video-fr priority 384 police cir 384000 conform-action set-prec-transmit 6 exceed-action drop violate-action drop class class-default fair-queue

policy-map pbx class video-in set ip dscp af41 class class-default set ip dscp default ! ! ! voice call carrier capacity active ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! mta receive maximum-recipients 0 ! ! ! interface FastEthernet0/0 ip address 172.16.2.1 255.255.255.0 ip helper-address 172.16.1.8 ip helper-address 172.16.1.9 ip helper-address 172.16.1.10 ip helper-address 172.16.1.11 ip helper-address 172.16.1.12 ip helper-address 172.16.1.1 ip helper-address 172.16.1.4 ip route-cache flow no keepalive speed auto service-policy input pbx ! interface Serial0/0 bandwidth 2048 no ip address encapsulation frame-relay IETF ip route-cache flow no fair-queue frame-relay traffic-shaping frame-relay lmi-type ansi ! interface Serial0/0.101 point-to-point ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0 ip access-group 110 out frame-relay interface-dlci 101 class VOIPovFR ! ip classless ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Serial0/0.101 no ip http server ip flow-export version 5 ip flow-export destination 172.16.1.71 2042 ! ! ! map-class frame-relay VOIPovFR frame-relay cir 2048000 frame-relay bc 20480 frame-relay be 0 frame-relay mincir 2048000 service-policy output LLQ

access-list 105 permit ip any any dscp af41 access-list 106 permit ip host 172.16.2.105 any

Reply to
anthony.sweeney
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not sure about the video stuff.

the IP helpers that you have configured will send 7 copies of eachh UDP braodcast packet over you WAN

ip helper-address 172.16.1.8 ip helper-address 172.16.1.9 ip helper-address 172.16.1.10 ip helper-address 172.16.1.11 ip helper-address 172.16.1.12 ip helper-address 172.16.1.1 ip helper-address 172.16.1.4

also be aware that configured ip helpers also automatically enable the forwarding of the following UDP broadcasts: TFTP - port 69 Domain Name System (DNS) - port 53 Time service - port 37 NetBIOS Name Server - port 137 NetBIOS Datagram Server - port 138 Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) - port 67 TACACS - port 49

see Cisco TAC article

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do you have NETBIOS traffic tranversing your WAN ?

do you have a WINS server ?

Please post the output of show ip traffic and show interface from both routers

you are also exporting netflow traffic across the WAN ???

why not just collect it only on router A ?

Reply to
Merv

you might want to test using a directed broadcast IP address with the ip helper to see if it provides you with the same functionality.

If it does then you will only send a UDP forwarded braodcast once instead of 7 times.

int fa 0/0 ip helper 172.16.1.255

Reply to
Merv

Thanks for the replies, I will test out your suggestions. The config was not created by me, I am just in to troubleshoot it, so the actual in-depth setup of the network is unknown to me as yet.

Thanks again!

Reply to
anthony.sweeney

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