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Configuring Layer 2 Subscriber Logical Interfaces for CoS Hierarchical Schedulers Using Dynamic Profiles for Differentiating Home and Access Node Networks

In certain Broadband Remote Access Server (B-RAS) deployments, when you use an interface set to denote a home network, it might be necessary to configure the home network and the access node (such as a digital subscriber line access multiplexer, or DSLAM) in a scheduler hierarchy. This method of hierarchical scheduler is necessary in agent circuit identifier (ACI) VLANs because a home or an ACI is always an interface set in such topologies. You can configure a subscriber logical interface or an interface set at Layer 3 over an underlying enhanced subscriber management logical interface that functions as a Layer 2 node. You can configure a the Layer 2 logical interface in a CoS dynamic profile.

Before you apply CoS attributes to VLANs:

Consider a scenario in which a Layer 3 interface set, ACI-set aci-1006-ps0.3221225479, is stacked over dynamic a MPLS pseudowire service logical interface, ps0.3221225479, at Layer 2. You can configure only one traffic-control-profile under a dynamic profile. You must define the output-traffic-control-profile that binds the traffic-control profile to the interface within the same dynamic profile as the interface. Two traffic control profiles are defined to apply an output traffic scheduling and shaping profile to the MPLS pseudowire logical interface. These control profiles are an-tcp to be applied for TCP subscribers that are terminated at the access mode and an-tcp-remaining, which is a remaining traffic-control profile to a logical interface to provide minimal CoS scheduling when you have not configured or over-provisioned Layer 3 schedulers.

To apply CoS attributes, such as shaping, at the household level, you must set and define the CoS policy for the agent-circuit-identifier VLAN interface set using the dynamic profile for the agent-circuit-identifier interface set (not the subscriber profile). You can also configure a traffic-control profile and a remaining traffic-control profile for a dynamic interface set.

The following example is a CoS profile for an ACI set using a unique-ID based dynamic scheduler map:

Configure a CoS dynamic profile with a simple traffic-control profile that is applied to the dynamic interface set that represents the ACI VLAN.

  1. Configure CoS to support a dynamic interface set in the CoS profile:
  2. Configure the interfaces.
  3. Configure the CoS traffic-control profile.
  4. Specify the output traffic control profile and the remaining traffic control profile for the underlying logical interfaces that are members of the interface set.
  5. Specify the output traffic control profile for the interface set.

The following example is a CoS profile for an ACI set using a unique ID-based dynamic scheduler map:

You can use the show class-of-service scheduler-hierarchy interface interface-name command to verify the CoS hierarchical schedulers configured on the interfaces. For example, the following output illustrates that ACI-set aci-1003-demux0.3221225482 is stacked over demux0.3221225482.

From the following sample output, you can verify that ACI-iflset aci-1001-ps1.3221225472 is stacked over a static pseudowire transport logical interface, ps1.0

From the following sample output, you can verify that ACI-set aci-1006-ps0.3221225479 is stacked over the dynamic pseudowire service logical interface, ps0.3221225479.