iWAG SSO Support for GTP

Effective from Cisco IOS XE Release 3.10S, the per-session Stateful Switchover (SSO)/In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) feature supports iWAG mobility sessions that are tunneled to MNO using GTP. The SSO feature takes advantage of Route Processor (RP) redundancy by establishing one of the RPs as the active processor, while the other RP is designated as the standby processor, and then synchronizing the critical state information between them. When a failover occurs, the standby device seamlessly takes over, starts performing traffic-forwarding services, and maintains a dynamic routing table.

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Information About iWAG SSO Support for GTP

The SSO/ISSU feature supports only the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers intrachassis (RP-to-RP) SSO, but not the interchassis (Cisco ASR1K-to-Cisco ASR1K) SSO. The First Sign Of Life (FSOL) triggers that are supported on SSO include DHCP proxy (where the iWAG acts as the DHCP proxy server) and DHCP proxy plus unclassified MAC.

For more information about ISSU, see the “Overview of ISSU on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers” section of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Software Configuration Guide.

The process as part of iWAG SSO handling GTP checkpoints to the standby RP the information that is necessary to create a copy of the session on the standby RP. Such an inactive copy of the session becomes active when the standby RP becomes active.

When an iWAG mobility session with GTP tunneling is enabled using the SSO/ISSU feature, the Cluster Control Manager on the active RP needs to wait for a few more components, including the GTP, to become ready before checkpoint data collection, and polls these additional components for checkpoint data during data collection. A very similar operation is performed on the standby RP as well. Although such additional CPU consumption is per session, it is not expected to be too heavy since processing in each of these components should include the time spent on a few data structure lookups and memory-copying operations.

During ISSU SIP and SPA upgrade, there is traffic interruption. To avoid session disconnect because of dropped echo messages during such traffic interruption, a user has the following options:

  • Option 1 (preferred):
  1. Disable the echo messages on the iWAG and GGSN for the duration of the ISSU.
  2. Re-enable the echo messages after ISSU is completed on the iWAG and GGSN.
  • Option 2: Extend the t3 and n3 configurations to exceed the expected traffic interruption. The traffic interruption characterized in the Cisco IOS XE Release 3.10S is 127 seconds. Hence, we recommend the following t3 and n3 settings (t3_response: 1 and n3_request: 7, resulting in 127 seconds on both the iWAG and GGSN) but the duration of the traffic interruption may depend on the types of SIPs and SPAs and how loaded the router is. If traffic interruption exceeds the configured t3 and n3 limits, the session is disconnected.

Enabling SSO Support for the GTP

This section describes how to enable SSO support for the GTP on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.

SUMMARY STEPS

    1.    enable

    2.    configure terminal

    3.    redundancy

    4.    mode SSO


DETAILED STEPS
     Command or ActionPurpose
    Step 1enable


    Example: 
    Router> enable
     

    Enables the privileged EXEC mode.

    Enter your password, if prompted.

     
    Step 2configure terminal


    Example: 
    Router# configure terminal
     

    Enters the global configuration mode.

     
    Step 3redundancy


    Example: 
    Router(config)# redundancy
     

    Enters the redundancy configuration mode.

     
    Step 4mode SSO


    Example: 
    Router(config-redundan)# mode SSO
     

    Configures the SSO redundancy mode of operation.

     

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    Feature Information for iWAG SSO Support for GTP

    The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.

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    Table 1 Feature Information for iWAG SSO Support for GTP

    Feature Name

    Releases

    Feature Information

    iWAG SSO Support for GTP

    Cisco IOS XE Release 3.10

    In Cisco IOS XE Release 3.10S, this feature was implemented on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.