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CCIE Routing & Switching

Unit 1: Preparation
Unit 2: Switching
Unit 3: IP Routing
Unit 4: RIP
Unit 5: EIGRP
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Unit 7: BGP
Unit 8: Multicast
Unit 9: IPv6
Unit 10: Quality of Service
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Classi cation on Cisco IOS Router

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Why do we need QoS on Switches

QoS Trust Boundary on Switches

Classi cation and Marking on Switches

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CBWFQ not supported on sub-interfaces

Policing Explained

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Shaping explained

Tra c Shaping on Cisco IOS

Peak Tra c Shaping on Cisco IOS

Shaping with Burst up to Interface Bandwidth

PPP Multilink Link Fragmention and Interleaving

Introduction to RSVP

RSVP DSBM (Designated Subnetwork Bandwidth Manager)

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Unit 11: Security

Unit 12: System Management
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RSVP DSBM (Designated Subnetwork

Bandwidth Manager)
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RSVP will work ne when you need to make a reservation on the link between two routers, but
what if you have a shared segment? An example could be a couple of routers that is connected to
the same half-duplex Ethernet network. These routers will share the bandwidth so when multiple
routers make an RSVP reservation it’s possible that we oversubscribe.

The routers should know about all RSVP reservations that are made on this shared segment and
that’s exactly why we have the DSBM (Designated Subnetwork Bandwidth Manager).

One of the routers on the shared segment will be elected as the DSBM and all other RSVP routers
will proxy their RSVP PATH and RESV messages through the DSBM. This way we will have
centralized admission control and we won’t risk oversubscribing the shared segment.

Besides being in charge of admission control, the DSBM can also distribute other information to
RSVP routers, for example the amount of non-reservable tra c that is allowed in the shared
segment or the average/peak rate and burst size for non-RSVP tra c.

The election to become the RSVP DSBM uses the following rules:

The router with the highest priority becomes the DSBM.

In case the priority is the same, the highest IP address is the tie-breaker.

Multiple DSBMs can be con gured for a shared segment but DSBM is non-preemptive. This
means that once the election is over, the router that was elected will stay as the DSBM even if you
con gure another router later with a higher priority.

Con guration-wise it’s easy to implement DSBM, let’s use the following topology to see how it
works:
Just 3 routers connected to the same switch. First we will enable RSVP on all interfaces:

R1(config)#interface FastEthernet 0/0

R1(config-if)#ip rsvp bandwidth

R2(config)#interface FastEthernet 0/0

R2(config-if)#ip rsvp bandwidth

R3(config)#interface FastEthernet 0/0

R3(config-if)#ip rsvp bandwidth

Now we'll configure R3 as the DSBM for this segment:

R3(config)#interface FastEthernet 0/0

R3(config-if)#ip rsvp dsbm candidate

If you want, you can con gure the DSBM to tell other RSVP routers to limit the reservations:

R3(config-if)#ip rsvp bandwidth 2048

I’ll set the maximum bandwidth to 2048 kbit. We can also set a number of parameters for non-RSVP
tra c:

R3(config-if)#ip rsvp dsbm non-resv-send-limit ?

burst Maximum burst (Kbytes)
 max-unit Maximum packet size (bytes)
min-unit Minimum policed unit (bytes)
peak Peak rate (Kbytes/sec)
rate Average rate (Kbytes/sec)

Let’s verify if R3 has won the election:

R1#show ip rsvp sbm detail

Interface: FastEthernet0/0
Local Configuration Current DSBM
IP Address: 192.168.123.1 IP Address: 192.168.123.3
DSBM candidate: no I Am DSBM: no
Priority: 64 Priority: 64
Non Resv Send Limit Non Resv Send Limit
Rate: unlimited Rate: 2147483 Kbytes/sec
Burst: unlimited Burst: 536870 Kbytes
Peak: unlimited Peak: unlimited
Min Unit: unlimited Min Unit: unlimited
Max Unit: unlimited Max Unit: unlimited

R2#show ip rsvp sbm detail

Interface: FastEthernet0/0
Local Configuration Current DSBM
IP Address: 192.168.123.2 IP Address: 192.168.123.3
DSBM candidate: no I Am DSBM: no
Priority: 64 Priority: 64
Non Resv Send Limit Non Resv Send Limit
Rate: unlimited Rate: 2147483 Kbytes/sec
Burst: unlimited Burst: 536870 Kbytes
Peak: unlimited Peak: unlimited
Min Unit: unlimited Min Unit: unlimited
Max Unit: unlimited Max Unit: unlimited

R3#show ip rsvp sbm detail

Interface: FastEthernet0/0
Local Configuration Current DSBM
IP Address: 192.168.123.3 IP Address: 192.168.123.3
DSBM candidate: yes I Am DSBM: yes
Priority: 64 Priority: 64
Non Resv Send Limit Non Resv Send Limit
Rate: unlimited Rate: 2147483 Kbytes/sec
Burst: unlimited Burst: 536870 Kbytes
Peak: unlimited Peak: unlimited
 Min Unit: unlimited Min Unit: unlimited
Max Unit: unlimited Max Unit: unlimited

With R3 as the DSBM it will be in the middle of all RSVP messages. We can test this by con guring a
reservation between R1 and R2:

R1(config)#ip rsvp sender-host 192.168.123.2 192.168.123.1 tcp 23 0 128 64

R2(config)#reservation-host 192.168.123.2 192.168.123.1 tcp 23 0 ff rate

128 64

When we check R3 you can see that it knows about the reservation that we just con gured:

R3#show ip rsvp installed

RSVP: FastEthernet0/0
BPS To From Protoc DPort Sport
128K 192.168.123.2 192.168.123.1 TCP 23 0

That’s all I wanted to share about DSBM for now. If you have any questions feel free to ask!

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