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Sep 19, 2017

Traffic to a vCMP guest gets marked on vCMP host with CoS 3?

Hi,

 

  1. Through testing, we have discovered that the traffic to a self-ip of one of the vCMP guest apparently gets marked with Class of Service 3 (CoS) on a vCMP host. For example, if I ping the self-ip 10.82.27.130 from a VMware guest 10.82.27.150 and capture this traffic on a network switch, I see the echo request with CoS priority 0 and echo reply from the self-ip with CoS 3. This is undesirable because it interferes with settings on Cisco UCS which sets jumbo frame MTU for CoS 3 to a value of 2200+.

     

    Looking through the configuration of the vCMP host, all CoS settings are unconfigured (all to their defaults). Therefore I suspect that this is probably some internal setting. Can someone confirm this behaviour? Is there a way to disable CoS marking?

     

  2. Is there a way to capture traffic on vCMP host interfaces for VLANs that go to vCMP guests? The VLANS are in different configuration partitions on vCMP host. I have tried the following command in the vCMP host, but it captures no data: tcpdump -s0 -nn -i /Partition-01/VLAN_1880 also tcpdump -s0 -i 0.0 captures STP, ARP, and syslog, but no traffic to the guests. Using tcpdump inside tmsh does not change anything.

     

Thanks for yout thoughts!

 

Srecko

 

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  • As it turns out the TMM generated traffic is marked with CoS 3. You can change the CoS value from ver. 11.5.4 HF4. Details here: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-hotfix-bigip-11-5-4.html

     

    Component: Local Traffic Manager

     

    Symptoms: For TMM generated packets (such as ICMP request), the existing behavior is TMM would use hard code value 3 for the packet priority.

     

    Conditions: Packets are generated internally by TMM.

     

    Impact: No way to control those packets's priority.

     

    Fix: A new db variable tm.egress.pktpriority is added to set packet priority of TMM generated egress packets. Default 3 with range 0-7.