Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-08 Thread Jay Hennigan

On 5/7/15 3:05 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:


And this is what sales and marketing droids don't get - so-called
Premium Internet products abound that don't really mean anything.

The competition that offer these products are basically hoping nothing
happens, and that when it does, it seems as palatable as flying First
Class in a plane that's going down.


Which is usually a bad thing. I've never heard of an airplane backing 
into a mountain.


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Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Tinka


On 7/May/15 11:12, James Bensley wrote:


 This.

 You can't really put SLAs on traffic that has to egress/ingress the
 Internet, if you try to you're asking for trouble, so we simply remark
 to 0 on all inbound traffic.

And this is what sales and marketing droids don't get - so-called
Premium Internet products abound that don't really mean anything.

The competition that offer these products are basically hoping nothing
happens, and that when it does, it seems as palatable as flying First
Class in a plane that's going down.

Focus energies on other things, I say... the customers that buy such
services should know better, but alas...

Mark.


Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-07 Thread James Bensley
On 6 May 2015 at 03:27, Blake Dunlap iki...@gmail.com wrote:
 If there isn't a specific peering agreement which sets up DSCP marks
 with your Z side, you're going to have a bad time doing anything other
 than remarking to 0.

 -Blake


This.

You can't really put SLAs on traffic that has to egress/ingress the
Internet, if you try to you're asking for trouble, so we simply remark
to 0 on all inbound traffic.

Jamas.


RE: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-07 Thread John van Oppen
seems pretty real to me, I know we (AS11404) mark to zero on ingress...   I 
think that is the typical case otherwise people would just tag their flood 
style ddos traffic as max and try to take out everything.

John 

From: NANOG [nanog-boun...@nanog.org] on behalf of Mike Hammett 
[na...@ics-il.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 4:46 AM
To: nanog list
Subject: Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

That sounds like a rather poor implementation. What if they had more than one 
VoIP call?

Seems like this thread has more FUD than real examples.




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- Original Message -

From: Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se
To: Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu
Cc: nanog list nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:32:52 AM
Subject: Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

On Wed, 6 May 2015, Mark Tinka wrote:

 With color-aware policing toward a customer in Uganda, any traffic
 coming from that peer in South Africa was getting dropped toward that
 customer in Uganda. After a very odd sequence of troubleshooting events,
 we found that the AF DSCP alues being set by the peer in South Africa
 (and us passing them due to the old kit not being able to remark on
 ingress) was causing the color-aware policer in Uganda to drop traffic
 toward the customer there.

I have heard similar stories where game traffic ended up in a 100
kilobit/s VoIP queue which worked fine until there were a lot of nearby
players in the game, then things started working very badly. Also nice
corner case :P

So yes, setting all external Internet traffic to DSCP=BE (0) is something
one wants to do.

--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se



Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-07 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson

On Wed, 6 May 2015, Mark Tinka wrote:

With color-aware policing toward a customer in Uganda, any traffic 
coming from that peer in South Africa was getting dropped toward that 
customer in Uganda. After a very odd sequence of troubleshooting events, 
we found that the AF DSCP alues being set by the peer in South Africa 
(and us passing them due to the old kit not being able to remark on 
ingress) was causing the color-aware policer in Uganda to drop traffic 
toward the customer there.


I have heard similar stories where game traffic ended up in a 100 
kilobit/s VoIP queue which worked fine until there were a lot of nearby 
players in the game, then things started working very badly. Also nice 
corner case :P


So yes, setting all external Internet traffic to DSCP=BE (0) is something 
one wants to do.


--
Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se


Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Hammett
That sounds like a rather poor implementation. What if they had more than one 
VoIP call? 

Seems like this thread has more FUD than real examples. 




- 
Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

- Original Message -

From: Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se 
To: Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu 
Cc: nanog list nanog@nanog.org 
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:32:52 AM 
Subject: Re: IP DSCP across the Internet 

On Wed, 6 May 2015, Mark Tinka wrote: 

 With color-aware policing toward a customer in Uganda, any traffic 
 coming from that peer in South Africa was getting dropped toward that 
 customer in Uganda. After a very odd sequence of troubleshooting events, 
 we found that the AF DSCP alues being set by the peer in South Africa 
 (and us passing them due to the old kit not being able to remark on 
 ingress) was causing the color-aware policer in Uganda to drop traffic 
 toward the customer there. 

I have heard similar stories where game traffic ended up in a 100 
kilobit/s VoIP queue which worked fine until there were a lot of nearby 
players in the game, then things started working very badly. Also nice 
corner case :P 

So yes, setting all external Internet traffic to DSCP=BE (0) is something 
one wants to do. 

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se 



Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-06 Thread Joel Mulkey
But don't trust that's going to be the rule. I recently had a situation where 
traffic across a congested public peering link between 2 large tier-2 
carriers was honoring DSCP, resulting in some unexpected inconsistent behavior.

Joel Mulkey
Founder and CEO
Bigleaf Networks
Direct: +1 (503) 985-6964  |  Support: +1 (503) 985-8298  |  www.bigleaf.net

 On May 5, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net wrote:
 
 
 On 5 May 2015, at 17:27, Ramy Hashish wrote:
 
 Assume two ASs connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier one 
 networks trust any DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?
 
 The BCP is to re-color on ingress.
 
 ---
 Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net



Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-06 Thread Roland Dobbins

On 6 May 2015, at 8:22, Joel Mulkey wrote:

 But don't trust that's going to be the rule.

Yes, that's always the caveat.

Just do what you can within your own span of administrative control.

---
Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net


RE: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-06 Thread Charles Wyble
I presume nothing is honored. I just encapsulate everything if I'm crossing 
networks outside my corporate WAN.

Amazing how handy openvpn with no crypto is. :)  

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From: Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu
Sent: ‎5/‎6/‎2015 12:39 AM
To: Ramy Hashish ramy.ihash...@gmail.com; nanog@nanog.org 
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Subject: Re: IP DSCP across the Internet



On 5/May/15 12:27, Ramy Hashish wrote:
 Good day all,

 A simple question, does Internet trust IP DSCP marking? Assume two ASs
 connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier one networks trust any
 DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?

I wouldn't bet on it.

Some providers honor, most remark. We remark.

We can only honor DSCP values on private circuits (l2vpn, l3vpn, that
sort o' thing).

Mark.

!DSPAM:5549a92270553521610807!



RE: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-06 Thread Charles Wyble
I presume nothing is honored. I just encapsulate everything if I'm crossing 
networks outside my corporate WAN.

Amazing how handy openvpn with no crypto is. :)  

-Original Message-
From: Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu
Sent: ‎5/‎6/‎2015 12:39 AM
To: Ramy Hashish ramy.ihash...@gmail.com; nanog@nanog.org 
nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: IP DSCP across the Internet



On 5/May/15 12:27, Ramy Hashish wrote:
 Good day all,

 A simple question, does Internet trust IP DSCP marking? Assume two ASs
 connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier one networks trust any
 DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?

I wouldn't bet on it.

Some providers honor, most remark. We remark.

We can only honor DSCP values on private circuits (l2vpn, l3vpn, that
sort o' thing).

Mark.

!DSPAM:5549a92270553521610807!



Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins


On 5 May 2015, at 17:27, Ramy Hashish wrote:

Assume two ASs connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier 
one networks trust any DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?


The BCP is to re-color on ingress.

---
Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net


Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-05 Thread Tim Jackson
In general there are very few bad actors here in regards to
trusting/accepting/using DSCP across the internet.

Apple has a tendency to mark some traffic with EF that shouldn't be EF on
PNIs, and Cogent leaks a lot of their internal markings into customers, but
it's generally unmarked traffic from certain customers/peers. Other than
that IMHO it's totally valid to accept, and nobody abuses it (other than
those 2).

We accept DSCP from the internet and do queue a few things higher towards
customers for things like OTT VoIP etc.

Remarking DSCP is bad IMHO, trusting it is another thing. You just have to
be careful, and I suggest good netflow tools to keep an eye on it.
On May 5, 2015 5:30 PM, Ramy Hashish ramy.ihash...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good day all,

 A simple question, does Internet trust IP DSCP marking? Assume two ASs
 connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier one networks trust any
 DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?

 Thanks,

 Ramy



Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-05 Thread Blake Dunlap
If there isn't a specific peering agreement which sets up DSCP marks
with your Z side, you're going to have a bad time doing anything other
than remarking to 0.

-Blake

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote:
 In general there are very few bad actors here in regards to
 trusting/accepting/using DSCP across the internet.

 Apple has a tendency to mark some traffic with EF that shouldn't be EF on
 PNIs, and Cogent leaks a lot of their internal markings into customers, but
 it's generally unmarked traffic from certain customers/peers. Other than
 that IMHO it's totally valid to accept, and nobody abuses it (other than
 those 2).

 We accept DSCP from the internet and do queue a few things higher towards
 customers for things like OTT VoIP etc.

 Remarking DSCP is bad IMHO, trusting it is another thing. You just have to
 be careful, and I suggest good netflow tools to keep an eye on it.
 On May 5, 2015 5:30 PM, Ramy Hashish ramy.ihash...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good day all,

 A simple question, does Internet trust IP DSCP marking? Assume two ASs
 connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier one networks trust any
 DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?

 Thanks,

 Ramy



Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-05 Thread Mark Tinka


On 6/May/15 03:35, Tim Jackson wrote:
 In general there are very few bad actors here in regards to
 trusting/accepting/using DSCP across the internet.

 Apple has a tendency to mark some traffic with EF that shouldn't be EF on
 PNIs, and Cogent leaks a lot of their internal markings into customers, but
 it's generally unmarked traffic from certain customers/peers. Other than
 that IMHO it's totally valid to accept, and nobody abuses it (other than
 those 2).

 We accept DSCP from the internet and do queue a few things higher towards
 customers for things like OTT VoIP etc.

 Remarking DSCP is bad IMHO, trusting it is another thing. You just have to
 be careful, and I suggest good netflow tools to keep an eye on it.

We had an odd experience, once, where - due to old hardware - we could
not remark traffic we were picking up from a peer in South Africa.

With color-aware policing toward a customer in Uganda, any traffic
coming from that peer in South Africa was getting dropped toward that
customer in Uganda. After a very odd sequence of troubleshooting events,
we found that the AF DSCP alues being set by the peer in South Africa
(and us passing them due to the old kit not being able to remark on
ingress) was causing the color-aware policer in Uganda to drop traffic
toward the customer there.

Re-configuring the policer to be color-blind fixed the issue, but you
can imagine how such a corner case this was.

Naturally, with new kit in now, our global QoS policy is in effect.

We don't honor DSCP values that comes in via best-effort circuits (i.e.,
the Internet). Although not a very strong reason, this particular
experience is one reason why.

Mark.


Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-05 Thread Mark Tinka


On 5/May/15 12:27, Ramy Hashish wrote:
 Good day all,

 A simple question, does Internet trust IP DSCP marking? Assume two ASs
 connected through two tier 1 networks, will the tier one networks trust any
 DSCP markings done from an AS to the other?

I wouldn't bet on it.

Some providers honor, most remark. We remark.

We can only honor DSCP values on private circuits (l2vpn, l3vpn, that
sort o' thing).

Mark.


Re: IP DSCP across the Internet

2015-05-05 Thread Randy Bush
 We don't honor DSCP values that comes in via best-effort circuits
 (i.e., the Internet). Although not a very strong reason, this
 particular experience is one reason why.

trusting markings of any sort which you do not need is an increase in
attack, game playing, and/or bug surface.  the only thing i would pass
is ecn.

randy