Cisco Switching/Routing :: Voice Quality And 45xx QOS DBL Feature?
Oct 12, 2006
Had problems with voice quality on VoIP with 4500 series switches and the qos dbl feature (which gets enabled by the auto qos feature)?? I have had a couple of customer complaining about voice quality and our voice team spent a lot of time investigating; I had ruled out the network infrastructure because it was all QOS enabled. The voip people came up against a blank so I looked at the network once more and disbaled dbl with hope more than anything else. Mysteriously the voice quality issues the customer was having have now disappeared. Not sure whether a coincidence (though I have done this on two customers now) or something to with with dbl. There is nothing on this on cco.
I would like to know if it is possible to assign a 3rd IP address to my end user vlan. Basically the 45xx acts as my end user gateway and has been confirgured as below
interface VlanXX description Main Vlan ip address 2.X.X.X 255.255.255.0 secondary ip address 1.X.X.X 255.255.252.0
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Here, due to IP address exhaustion in my end-user network, i want to add one more subnet X.X.X.X/22 to my network and assign one IP more from this range to the above vlan to act as the gateway IP.
I am facing Voice Quality issue in Cisco Ip phone. However I don’t have any issue while calling between extension in the same Site. I am facing voice quality issue while traffic flowing through the MPLS over GRE tunnel. Its working fine If I am removing the mls Qos in Cisco 3550 Interface.
We have a UC500 with 3 access points AP541N. We need to move around the building so we use wireless voice with 7925G phones. All works fine except when the phone needs to change from one AP to another. We lost connection for a small interval of time and then resume normal operation.
We have branches all over the country and we take different links like fiber (Ethernet) radio links etc. Now sometimes when we ping from branch WAN ip to its gateway or to the aggregation router (ASR 1000) in this case, we see some drops, but see no problem in actual HTTP or lotus communication.
What i want to know, that now a days, should we rely on ping results to determine link quality ? or should i use tools like iperf to basically see if the link is actually treating tcp and udp packets properly, I have heard this countless times that normally network devices like Cisco routers, even without any QOS, will give low priority to ping packets.
I am facing an isssues with 7609 for LAN switching , based on LAN (VRRP/HSRP) feature.Actually we are having ES+ cards (on 7609) and we are using multiple groups(say 350 vrrp groups) running on the router . the routers are connected as router 1>>> mux(which is working as switches)>>> router2
my questing are
1. does their will be "multicast packets" (for VRRP/HSRP group) "from backup router to Master router", when in stable state( ie when Master and backup are already chosen) , or the packet from backup to master should be unicast.I know for sure, the packet from master to back is multicast packets denstination to Multicast IP packet and To MAC address.I am not sure but I think from backup to master it should be multicast
2. what is frequency of these packets( from backup to master)
3. As i have multiper group on a single interface ( we are using q-in-q), when the connectivity from router's is broken, then does all the groups will muticast their active roll in the lan sengment "at once" or it will be in a groups say 100 groups at once, and after few ms few 100's and sone ( as is on OSPF or RIP)
we are in between troubleshooting I hope we get the ans( Actul problem we are seeing in the router's that we have 2 ports on active routers and 2 ports on standby router , but we are not seeing muticast on 1 port on standby router where as all other 3 ports are seeing multicast packets) [code]
We're looking at implementing a new phone system which will use voice over ip. Currently we have a mixture of Cisco 3750 and Cisco 3550 switches which don't support power over ethernet. Its been suggested we could continue using the current switches and power the new phones using power adapters.
Int terms of implementing qos (we don't have any at the moment) for the voice will a Cisco 3550 be OK and will having a mixture of different models using 3550 and 3750 pose any challenges with the qos policy for the voice. I believe there are differences in that the Cisco 3550 doesn't support srr-queues but having little experience with qos I'm not sure what impact this will have if any?
one of our switches (WS-C2960G-24TC-L). When I try to turn on the lanbase-routing feature using sdm prefer lanbase-routing, it gives me an error (Unknown command). I tried "sdm prefer ?", and lanbase-routing wasn't there (only qos, default and dual IPv4 & IPv6). The switch is running on image C2960-LANBASEK9-M version 12.2(50)SE5.We have another switch (WS-C2960S-24TS-L), running on image C2960S-UNIVERSALK9-M version 12.2(55)SE5, and I can enable lanbase-routing feature. If I upgrade the WS-C2960G-24TC-L to version 12.2(55)SE5, will it be able to do inter-vlan routing? Or is the switch itself totally limited to VLAN configuration only?
PC---2960---3750(One Routed Port and All Switched Port)------------------------ 3750(One Routed Port and All Switched Port)-----2960------Internet
I have many Vlans on left side of image , Right Side of Image is having internet connection via Modem, and local connectivity between VLAN works fine but Other Vlans Except Vlan1 is able to Access Internet.Note that 3750X did not have NAT Feature ,How should I able to get Internet on Other Vlans (10,20)
I have a customer who has a Cisco 2821 router with software 2821/HSEC/K9 and they wish to upgrade to C2821-VSEC-SRST/K9.From my understanding they want to use the same router but install an IOS with the capabilites it has at the moment but with voice. [code]How do I go about pricing this up and what upgrade sku's will do this?I am not to worried about the memory.Is it just a simple ios upgrade as the srst licenses are on a trust basis?
I'm using CISCO 3524 switch as access switch and trying to enable voice vlan in fast eth ports as below.
L3 vlans are created in core switches which is cisco 6509 vlan 1 - data vlan vlan 2 - voice vlan in cisco 3524
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if i use the above configs, the phone which is connected to interface fa0/1 is not taking ip from dhcp server. even it didn't work with static configs.while troubelshooting, i have configured as below and it's started working..
int fa0/1 switchport acces vlan 2 speed 100 duplex full.
in this case i can't use this port for data connectivity where as it's required for data too.
I have CME on Router 2800 series, and switch 2960 PoE connected to this router.On 2960 switch, there is existing 7945 IP Phone that already work properly and get IP 14.x.x.x from voice vlan 2.
Problem is when I add cisco 6921 IP Phone connect to 2960 switch, it get data vlan 10.x.x.x, not voice Vlan 14.x.x.x I have check CDP and it use CDP v2
Config on 2960:
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/34 <--- this is connected to IP Phone 7945 switchport mode access switchport voice vlan 2 spanning-tree portfast
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With same config and condition on port 2960, why the IP Phone 6921 can't get voice vlan 14.x.x.x, whereas IP Phone 7945 can get voice vlan 14.x.x.x
I have been looking to find out the list of features that the IP Base IOS has for the 3750X series switch. What would be ideal is a comparable list but essentially I need to know which of the LAN Base/IP Base/IP Services has SSH functionality.
Full feature set for IP Base with the 3750x.I just wanted to verify that I could create a routed port, turn ip routing on, and create static routes as well as a default route. From what I can find, there shouldn't be a problem with this on the IP Base Feature Set, I just wanted to verify. Or any link for the Features of IP Base on the 3750x.
I have spent several days tearing my hair out trying to properly configure our small business switch (SG300-10p) for voice. The phones are a relatively new addition and will replace old POTS phones.Our network consists of a 1941 ISR router, the SG300-10P switch, a mac server (handing DHCP, DNS, AFP), 4 client desktops and 4 SGA525G2 IP phones. The router, server, desktops and phones all have their own connection to the switch and the second data ports on the back of the IP phones are not used. We do not have any unified comms devices for voice. Our VOIP solution is hosted by a local SIP provider, and each phone independently registers with the provider's SIP proxy over the internet.
Left almost to it’s own devices (or presumably flat, default settings on VLAN 1), this whole setup works just great. We can TFTP files, make and receive calls, and do all the usual XML stuff. Calls are crystal clear. Even the localisation and directory works. However, I’ve been told several times that to ensure good quality on VOIP calls during periods of busy traffic, I should set up some form of QoS. A Voice VLAN on the switch, I was told, is the best way to do this as it automagically gives priority to the whole voice VLAN over the normal data VLAN.
I have followed instructions in numerous manuals, articles and guides, and have managed to create the Voice VLAN, both manually and automatically (I can watch Smartport detect the phones and see the Auto Voice VLAN add the ports to the VLAN as I connect them). The trouble is, as soon as this happens, the phones lose connectivity with the rest of the network, including the DNS server and the router, and therefore the internet, causing them to lose registration with the SIP service.
I tried adding the server and router ports to the Voice VLAN and tweaking every possible combination of tagged, untagged, excluded, trunk, access, general and PVID settings I can think of (by the way, I have no idea what any of those mean). The switch is in Layer 2 mode, but adding the port connected to the router to all the VLANs does not result in internet connectivity to the phones. I have told the phones to tag frames with the VLAN ID and told them not to. I have tried upgrading firmware and I have rebooted the switch so many times I'm tired of those wretched little flashing lights.
Nothing seems to work. And so I am stuck with everything on VLAN 1. My most recent thought is that the 1941 needs to know about the Voice VLAN (I checked CDP and it knows about the switch), but I’m reluctant to start messing with the router config when this is our production network, at least without knowing what I'm doing. I don’t even know if QoS applies when a Voice VLAN is not set up and we're on VLAN 1, some articles say yes, others say no. And when it is set up right, how does that priority transfer to the router? I’ve looked in the router manual and config options and found something called 802.1Q, but I have no idea what it is, how it works or even if it applies to our situation. Can I forgo VLANs altogether and use QoS some other way, perhaps?I have googled enough to cobble together our setup in IOS up until now. Ideally, I would still like to be able to ssh or https into each device (as I do now) for management, and I’ve read about setting up a another VLAN for config, monitoring etc, but I guess that would mean routing between VLANs in Layer 3.
If we configure a Voice and Data VLAn on a switch. And connect EX90 on voice VLAN and PCwith EX90 terminals. Than can we able to share a presentation or data with EX90 or not?
i am facing a strange issue on cisco 2950 .IOS (tm) C2950 Software (C2950-I6K2L2Q4-M), Version 12.1(22)EA9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) suddenly my phone stopped working for DTMF tone, i mean when i dial a conference bridge lets say 6565 and then it ask for conference bridge code lets say 12345, it doesnt recognize the code and says code is invalid, SIP Proxy is Asterisk in this case.Currently my cisco switch port is configured for dual data + voice vlan, where DTMF dont work, sample config below [code]
I wanted to know about EHWIC 8-Port configuration? We create Data and Voice VLANs and assign 8 ports to the VLANs. So how do VLANS communicate with each other? We cannot make Gi0/1 as sub interfaces and assign the same subnet IP’s as of VLAN IP’s , it wont accept. On 1921 router Assume Gi0/0 we connect to MPLS WAN. What happens to Gi0/1 where do we connect this?
|_voip PBX___|-----|__3650___|------fiber-------------|__3650_____|------|_voipphone__| I have a case where voipphone is registered on the voippbx but peaple on both end can't hear each other . No ACL on both 3650 , no firewalls between them , distance is about 2 miles . I tried to make telnet x.x.x.x 1720 or 1719 or 1721 (h323 ports) to opposite switch -connection refused . How can test if ports are open on the 3650 ? Is it coorect If I create allowing acl and apply it on both 3650 on the interfaces connected one switch to voippbx "IN" , second switch on the interf connected to voipphone "IN" ?
im working in a new enviroment and want to makes some design changes to the environment. I wanted to bounce my ideas some of you folks to see if my thinking is on the right path or maybe i could do things better.
Setup:
Currently the setup that i manage includes and Sonic Wall (also dishes out dhcp), HP 1810 "Core Switch" and 3 SG 300-28P cisco managed switches. (all cisco switches tie back into the HP) The router is managed by the isp. There is only one vlan with all traffic going across it.
Obviously the glaring issue here is that voice and data all reside on the same vlan. Correct me if i am thinking incorrectly but the first step would be to create a separate vlan for the phones with its own IP scheme. currently phones are issued addresses from the 150-200 range and everything else is left for pc's, printers etc. To my knowledge the HP switch does layer 3 but i do not know much about it. There are vpn tunnels to remote offices that are used for sharepoint, email and to access other services. Trying to wrap my mind around the environment as a whole so i may be missing something obvious i could do design wise to improve.
We are going to be rolling the 4500 switches out and I wanted to know more about how to use the wireshark featue. Any documentation on how to use this?
i want to know of the IOS verstion of cisco switch which support STP,some one told me that this feature is activated by deafalut if it not activated,how to turn on this Feature.i am using cisco 2960 Switch.
I have a 2911 router with 15.1(4) Ios Version. I need to enable the evaluation sna feature but when I try to enter the command "license feature snasw" but I get an error, the command "License feature" does not exist.
For many years we've had the following vlan and port security config on our 3560s: [code] This has worked great on 12.2(37)SE1, 12.2(40)SE and 12.2(46)SE. However since 12.2(50)SE, and I've tried all the versions since then, we have a problem with 7900 phones and ATA186s taking upwards of 20 minutes before they can get a valid IP number.The problem on the newer IOSes seems to be related to the inactivity aging.On the older IOS versions the mac address of the voice device appears on the voice vlan straight away.
On the newer IOS versions the mac address of the voice device appears on the DATA vlan and seems to be stuck there until the inactivity aging removes it. It then gets re-learned, sometimes on the voice vlan, and sometimes on the data vlan. If you're unlucky and it gets re-learned on the data vlan you've got to wait until the inactivity time ages the address out again. Repeat until the mac address eventually gets learned on the voice vlan. I don't want to be stuck on 12.2(46)SE forever.
I have to configure router 2811 for Data and Voice network.However I have only one Fast Ethernet interface. [code]
what else do I need to configure on switchport on which Avaya phones are connected.And is there any extra command, i need to configure on the router and 2950 switch.
We have two MPLS circuits managed by two different suppliers, one carries VOICE the other DATAWe are to decommision the VOICE MPLS and have increased the bandwith of the DATA MPLS to carry VoIP traffic too.
At both of our sites A & B ,devices connected to the LAN have a default gateway of the VOICE providers Cisco 2600 router , which then goes into the LAN switching. (see diagram)So what I am trying to achieve is toto simply replace these 2600 routers from the VOICE MPLS provider with our own so we dont have to change the default gateways at both sites. Testing
Our Cisco 2600 routes are plugged into each LAN switching environment with two subinterfaces configured, one for voip and the other for dataThe problem is from the router and respective subinterfaces we can get to the other sites destination without any issue, but if for example a user is at site A with Ip address 10.16.11.12/16 they cant ping the VOIP subnet at site B 10.3.11.0/24. But If a ping is issue from the Site A test router then the 10.3.11.0/24 subnet is reachable but only on the 10.3.12.0/24 configured subinterface.So i guess what Im saying is 10.16.0.0/16 from the LAN needs to be able to get to 10.3.11.0/24Note at site A 10.16.0.0/16 & 10.3.12.0/24 can communicate no problem and at site B 10.207.0.0/16 & 10.3.11.0/24 can communicate no problem.We are using IP routing, should we be using route-maps?
I am trying to write an extended ACL for the voice vlan.My scenario is the following:I have two PBXs with two Catalyst 4505 L3 switches.The C4505 are connected trough a trunk link.I have a VTP domain configured.
Voice VLANs are Vlan 100 and Vlan 101 with networks 10.2.0.0/16 and 10.4.0.0/16 Voip telephones are communicating between them self and everything is working fine.I want to secure both voice VLANs with an ACL to allow only couple of IPs to administer the phones.The PCs are connected trough a integrated switch via VOIP telephone.Here is the sample configuration of the dhcp pool for the PC VLAN:
ip dhcp pool PCs network 10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 default-router 10.1.1.1 dns-server 10.10.10.1 option 43 hex 010a.5369.656d.656e.7300.0000.0204.0000.0064.0000.0000.00ff
I had to implement the 43 hex option because the PCs did not get the ip from the DHCP because of the vendor specific information.The thing that worries me is will the DHCP forward the ACKs for the PCs if I implement this test ACL:
ip access-list extended VLAN100 permit ip 10.2.0.0 0.0.255.255 10.4.0.0 0.0.255.255 permit ip 10.4.0.0 0.0.255.255 10.2.0.0 0.0.255.255 permit ip 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255 10.2.0.0 0.0.255.255 permit ip 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255 10.4.0.0 0.0.255.255 permit udp host 0.0.0.0 eq bootpc host 255.255.255.255 eq bootps (this I am not sure do I need) permit udp host 255.255.255.255 eq bootps host 0.0.0.0 eq bootpc (also this) deny ip any any
I only want to allow the network 192.168.2.0/24 and maybe some other hosts to access the web based http gui to adiminister the IP phones.All PCs are connected trough the VOIP terminals. I do not want to deny the traffic to PCs.
i have 2921 router with base license . i want to upgrade to it to security k9 feature or want to enable it. i have license file with product activation key. how should i do it. if any body have screen shot file
can you stack a 3750 switch over fiber.....the answer is no, but the virtual switching supervisor 720-10G for the 6500 can create one virtual switch using two 6500s...
how can we get cisco to come up with a way for access switches to be stacked over fiber similar to above supervisor? i know of few of my site that would benefit from this...maybe they can come up with a vss appliance, similar to a media converter, to convert stackwise over fiber...then of course, you would need the same appliance on the other end....
