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Configuring RED Drop Profiles for Assured Forwarding Congestion Control

If the Services Router must support assured forwarding, you can control congestion by configuring random early detection (RED) drop profiles. RED drop profiles use drop probabilities for different levels of buffer fullness to determine which scheduling queue on the router is likely to drop assured forwarding packets under congested conditions. The router can drop packets when the queue buffer becomes filled to the configured percentage.

Assured forwarding traffic with the PLP (packet loss priority) bit set is more likely to be discarded than traffic without the PLP bit set. This example shows how to configure a drop probability and a queue fill level for both PLP and non-PLP assured forwarding traffic. It is only one example of how to use RED drop profiles.

The example shows how to configure the RED drop profiles listed in Table 111.

Table 111: Sample RED Drop Profiles

af-normal—For non-PLP (normal) assured forwarding traffic

Between 0 (never dropped) and 100 percent (always dropped)

Between 95 and 100 percent

af-with-plp—For PLP (aggressive packet dropping) assured forwarding traffic

Between 95 and 100 percent (always dropped)

Between 80 and 95 percent

To configure RED drop profiles for assured forwarding congestion control on the Services Router:

  1. Navigate to the top of the configuration hierarchy in either the J-Web or CLI configuration editor.
  2. Perform the configuration tasks described in Table 112.
  3. If you are finished configuring the router, commit the configuration.
  4. Go on to one of the following tasks:

Table 112: Configuring RED Drop Profiles for Assured Forwarding Congestion Control

Navigate to the Class of service level in the configuration hierarchy.

In the configuration editor hierarchy, select Class of service.

From the top of the configuration hierarchy, enter

edit class-of-service

Configure the lower drop probability for normal, non-PLP traffic.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Drop profiles.
  2. In the Profile name box, type the name of the drop profile—for example, af-normal.
  3. Click Configure next to Interpolate.
  4. Click Add new entry next to Drop probability.
  5. In the Value box, type a number for the first drop point—for example, 0.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click Add new entry next to Drop probability again.
  8. In the Value box, type a number for the next drop point—for example, 100.
  9. Click OK.

Enter

edit drop-profiles af-normal interpolate

set drop-probability 0

set drop-probability 100

Configure a queue fill level for the lower non-PLP drop probability.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Fill level.
  2. In the Value box, type a number for the first fill level—for example, 95.
  3. Click OK.
  4. Click Add new entry next to Fill level.
  5. In the Value box, type a number for the next fill level—for example, 100.
  6. Click OK three times.

Enter

set fill-level 95

set fill-level 100

Configure the higher drop probability for PLP traffic.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Drop profiles.
  2. In the Profile name box, type the name of the drop profile—for example, af-with-plp.
  3. Click Configure next to Interpolate.
  4. Click Add new entry next to Drop probability.
  5. In the Value box, type a number for the first drop point—for example, 95.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click Add new entry next to Drop probability.
  8. In the Value box, type a number for the next drop point—for example, 100.
  9. Click OK.

Enter

edit drop-profiles af-with-PLP interpolate

set drop-probability 95

set drop-probability 100

Configure a queue fill level for the higher PLP drop probability.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Fill level.
  2. In the Value box, type a number for the first fill level—for example, 80.
  3. Click OK.
  4. Click Add new entry next to Fill level.
  5. In the Value box, type a number for the next fill level—for example, 95.
  6. Click OK.

Enter

set fill-level 80

set fill-level 95

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