To create an identity policy, use the identitypolicy command in policy-map class configuration mode. To remove the policy, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

An identity policy is not created.

Command Modes

Policy-map class configuration (config-pmap-class)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

This command refers to the global identity policy that is configured on the device that contains the access policies that are to be applied. Only a single identity policy can be configured under the policy class configuration submode. If the identity policy is not defined on the device, an error is generated during the application of the policy.

Related Commands

T o classify the IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS packets for POS, channelized, and clear-channel SPAs, use the ingress-class-mapcommandin global configuration mode to first define the ingress classification template. The ingress classification template is identified by the index-id that will be applied to an interface later. Use the no form of this command to remove the template.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No ingress-class-map index-ids are configured.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

To classify high priority packets such as IPv4, IPv6, or MPLS in a SIP or SPA, the classification template is defined using the ingress-classmapclass-mapindexcommand. The classification template-specific details are defined in the template, and the template is attached to an interface using the plimqosinputclass-mapcommand. The classification template can be deleted using the no command form. Each SIP supports 62 ingress classification templates. The total number of ingress classification templates that can be applied on Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router = number of carrier cards multiplied-by 62.

Note	The classification template cannot be deleted if the template is being used by an interface.

Related Commands

To disable the context-status feedback messages from the interface or link, use the ipheader-compressiondisable-feedback command in interface configuration mode. To enable context-status feedback messages from the interface or link, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

Context-status feedback messages are enabled by default.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ipheader-compressiondisable-feedback command is designed for use with satellite links where the path for the upward link is different from the path for the downward link. When the paths are different, context-status messages are not useful.

The ipheader-compressiondisable-feedback command can be used with either Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) or TCP header compression.

Related Commands

To specify the maximum amount of time to wait before the compressed IP header is refreshed, use the ipheader-compressionmax-header command in interface configuration mode. To return the amount of time to wait before the compressed IP header is refreshed to the default value, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

168 bytes

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The max-header-size argument of the ipheader-compressionmax-header command can be used to restrict the size of the header to be compressed.

Related Commands

To specify the maximum number of compressed packets between full headers, use the ipheader-compressionmax-period command in interface configuration mode. To return the number of compressed packets to the default value, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

256 packets

Command Modes

Interface configuration

Command History

Usage Guidelines

With the ipheader-compressionmax-periodcommand, full IP packet headers are sent in an exponentially increasing period after there has been a change in the context status. This exponential increase in the time period avoids the necessity of exchanging messages between the mechanism compressing the header and the mechanism decompressing the header.

By default, the ipheader-compressionmax-periodcommand operates on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic only. However, if the periodicrefresh keyword of either the frame-relayiprtpheader-compressioncommand or the frame-relaymapiprtpheader-compression command is configured, the ipheader-compressionmax-period command operates on both UDP and Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) traffic.

Related Commands

To specify the maximum amount of time to wait before the compressed IP header is refreshed, use the ipheader-compressionmax-time command in interface configuration mode. To return to the default value, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

If not length of time is configured, the default value is 5 seconds.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ipheader-compressionmax-time command is designed to avoid losing too many packets if the context status of the receiver has been lost.

If a packet is to be sent and the maximum amount of time has elapsed since the last time the IP header was refreshed, a full header is sent.

By default, the ipheader-compressionmax-timecommand operates on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic only. However, if the periodicrefresh keyword of either the frame-relayiprtpheader-compressioncommand or the frame-relaymapiprtpheader-compression command is configured, the ipheader-compressionmax-timecommand operates on UDP and Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) traffic.

Related Commands

To enable Enhanced Compressed Real-Time Transport Protocol (ECRTP) on an interface, use the ipheader-compressionrecoverable-loss command in interface configuration mode. To disable ECRTP on an interface, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

When using the dynamickeyword, the default value is 4.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Enhanced CRTP reduces corruption by changing the way the compressor updates the context at the decompressor. The compressor sends changes multiple times to keep the compressor and decompressor synchronized. This method is characterized by the number of packet-drops that represent the quality of the link between the hosts. By repeating the updates, the probability of context corruption due to packet loss is minimized.

The value for the packet-drops argument is maintained independently for each context and is not required to be the same for all contexts.

Related Commands

To revert the IP Header Compression (IPHC) format of compression to the non-RFC-compliant format, use the ipheader-compressionold-iphc-compcommand in interface configuration mode. To disable the IPHC format of compression, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

IPHC format compression is not configured.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ipheader-compressionold-iphc-comp command must be configured only when the IPHC format of compression or service-policy-based compression is configured.

Related Commands

To revert the IP Header Compression (IPHC) format of decompression to the non-RFC-compliant format, use the ipheader-compressionold-iphc-decompcommand in interface configuration mode. To retain the normal form of the IPHC format decompression, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

IPHC format decompression is not configured.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ipheader-compressionold-iphc-decomp command must be configured only when the IPHC format of compression or service-policy-based compression is configured.

Related Commands

To create an Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) attribute profile, use the ip nbar attribute-map command in global configuration mode. To remove an NBAR attribute profile, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

A new attribute profile is not created.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

NBAR supports the use of custom protocols to identify custom applications. Custom protocols support static port-based protocols and applications that NBAR does not support.

NBAR allows you to configure attribute profiles for protocols and to attach the profiles with the protocols.

The ip nbar attribute-map command lets you create an NBAR attribute profile. Upon using this command, you enter the attribute-map submode, which lets you assign various attributes to custom protocols. This attribute profile can be attached to a protocol by using the ip nbar attribute-set protocol-name profile-name command.

Related Commands

To assign an attribute profile to a specific protocol, use the ip nbar attribute-set command in global configuration mode. To remove the mapping of the attribute profile to the protocol, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) supports the use of custom protocols to identify custom applications. Custom protocols support static port-based protocols and applications that NBAR does not support.

NBAR lets you configure attribute profiles for protocols, and attach the profiles with the protocols.

You can attach an attribute profile to a protocol using the ip nbar attribute-set command. After a profile is attached to a protocol, you can edit the profile by adding or deleting its parameters. You can also remove an attached attribute profile from a protocol.

Related Commands

To enable Network Based Application Recognition’s (NBAR’s) ability to reveal the top hosts in the network traffic that is classified as generic, use the ip nbar classification auto-learn top-hosts command. To disable this ability, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

NBAR's ability to reveal the top hosts in the network traffic that is classified as generic is enabled.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The information is used to create custom application based on the host names.

Related Commands

To configure the classification mode, either as fine-grain or coarse-grain, for Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), use the ip nbar classification granularity command in global configuration mode. To disable the coarse-grain classification mode, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

The default classification mode of NBAR is fine-grain.

Command Modes

        Global configuration (config)
      

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The fine-grain mode of classification is equivalent to NBAR functionality and performance prior to the introduction of separate fine-grain and coarse-grain modes. The fine-grain mode provides full backward compatibility for existing configurations.

Related Commands

To enable application classification of IPv6 traffic that is carried over IPv4 tunnels (IPv6 in IPv4 and teredo) in Network Based Application Recognition, use the ip nbar classification tunneled-traffic command in global configuration mode. To disable application classification, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

Application classification for IPv6 traffic that is tunneled over IPv6 in IPv4 or teredo tunnels is not enabled.

Command Modes

        Global configuration (config)
      

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ipv6inip keyword enables application classification of IPv6 traffic that is carried over IPv4 tunnels over protocol 41. Protocol 41 includes the tunnel types such as ISATAP, 6to4, and 6rd.

The teredo keyword enables application classification of IPv6 traffic that is carried over teredo tunnel. The teredo tunnel is identified by two common default ports, port 3544 and port 3545 over UDP, which are on IPv4 tunnel endpoints.

This command has been deprecated. Use ip nbar custom transport. See ip nbar custom transport.

To extend the capability of Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) protocol discovery, use the ip nbar custom command in global configuration mode. To stop NBAR from classifying and monitoring additional static port application or classifying unsupported static port traffic, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the ip nbar custom command in global configuration mode to classify and monitor additional static port applications or to allow NBAR to classify unsupported static port traffic.

The first three characters of a custom protocol must be unique from any predefined protocol. Otherwise, you receive an ambiguous command error message.

NBAR can support up to 128 protocols.

If you enter the variable keyword when you configure a custom protocol, traffic statistics for the variable appear in some NBAR class map show outputs.

The protocol argument stands for the protocol that is implemented by the application. You specify the protocol as TCP or UDP before proceeding to the next set of elements given here:

Up to 24 variable values per custom protocol can be configured in class maps. For instance, in the following configuration, four variables are used:.

Device(config)# ip nbar custom ftdd 23 variable scid 1 tcp range 5001 5005
Device(config)# class-map match-any active-craft
Device(config-cmap)# match protocol ftdd scid 0x15
Device(config-cmap)# match protocol ftdd scid 0x21
Device(config-cmap)# exit
Device(config)# class-map match-any passive-craft
Device(config-cmap)# match protocol ftdd scid 0x11
Device(config-cmap)# match protocol ftdd scid 0x22

To enable Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) to recognize traffic based on IP addresses and to associate an application ID to specified IP address traffic, use the ip nbar custom transport command in global configuration mode. To disable traffic recognition, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the ip nbar custom transport command in global configuration mode to configure the custom protocol with IP address and port-based configuration.

NBAR can support up to 110 user-defined custom protocols that includes all custom applications.

For custom IP address and port configuration, the IP addresses and port numbers are limited to eight.

To support ip nbar custom transport command, custom configuration mode (config-custom) is introduced.

To extend or enhance the list of protocols recognized by network-based application recognition (NBAR) through a Cisco-provided Packet Description Language Module (PDLM), use the ipnbarpdlmcommandinglobalconfiguration mode. To unload a PDLM previously loaded, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No default behavior or values

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ipnbarpdlm command is used to extend the list of protocols recognized by a given version of NBAR or to enhance an existing protocol recognition capability. NBAR can be given an external PDLM at run time. In most cases, the PDLM enables NBAR to recognize new protocols without requiring a new Cisco IOS image or a router reload. Only Cisco can provide you with a new PDLM.

A list of the available PDLMs can be viewed online at Cisco.com.

Related Commands

This command is deprecated.

To configure network-based application recognition (NBAR) to search for a protocol or protocol name using a port number other than the well-known port, use the ipnbarport-mapcommand in global configuration mode. To look for the protocol name using only the well-known port number, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No protocol is configured.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the ipnbarport-map command to tell NBAR to look for the protocol or protocol name , using a port number or numbers other than the well-known Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)-assigned) port number. For example, use this command to configure NBAR to look for Telnet on a port other than 23. You can specify up to 16 ports with this command.

Some of the NBAR protocols look at the ports as well as follow the heuristic approach for traffic classification. If you apply different ports to a protocol using the ipnbarport-mapcommand, the heuristic nature of the protocol does not change. The advantage to adding a port number is better performance.

You can remove well-known ports from a predefined port map only if you first set the predefined port map to a port not belonging to any existing port map. For example, if you want to define a custom port map X and also associate it with port 20, you get an error saying that it is not possible. However, if you associate port map A with another port first, such as port 100, and then remove its association with port 20, you can associate custom port map X with port 20.

Note	For best results, do not configure the Citrix or BitTorrent protocols.

Related Commands

To configure Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) to discover traffic for all protocols that are known to NBAR on a particular interface, use the ipnbarprotocol-discoverycommand in interface configuration mode or VLAN configuration mode. To disable traffic discovery, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

Traffic discovery is disabled.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)
VLAN configuration (config-vlan)--Catalyst switches only

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use theipnbarprotocol-discoverycommand to configure NBAR to keep traffic statistics for all protocols that are known to NBAR. Protocol discovery provides an easy way to discover application protocols passing through an interface so that QoS policies can be developed and applied. The protocol discovery feature discovers any protocol traffic supported by NBAR. Protocol discovery can be used to monitor both input and output traffic and may be applied with or without a service policy enabled.

In Cisco IOS XE Release 3.3S, L3 and L4 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) protocols are supported for IPv4 and IPv6 packets.

Enter the ipv4 keyword to enable protocol discovery statistics collection for IPv4 packets, or enter the ipv6 keyword to enable protocol discovery statistics collection for IPv6 packets. Specifying either of these keywords enables the protocol discovery statistics collection for the specified IP version only. If neither keyword is specified, statistics collection is enabled for both IPv4 and IPv6. The no form of this command is not required to disable a keyword because the statistics collection is enabled for the specified keyword only.

Layer 2/3 Etherchannel Support

With Cisco IOS Release 12.2(18)ZYA, intended for use on the Cisco 6500 series switch that is equipped with a Supervisor 32/PISA, the ipnbarprotocol-discoverycommand is supported on both Layer 2 and Layer 3 Etherchannels.

Related Commands

To load a network based application recognition (NBAR)protocol pack, use the ip nbar protocol-pack command in global configuration mode. To remove the loaded protocol pack, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

The default protocol pack is loaded.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ip nbar protocol-pack command provides an easy way to load a protocol pack, which is a single compressed file that contains multiple Protocol Description Language (PDL) files and a manifest file. Before this command was introduced, PDLs had to be loaded separately. You can use this command to load a set of protocols, which helps NBAR to recognize additional protocols for classification on your network.

Use the force keyword in the following situations:

• To load a specific protocol pack of a lower version other than the default protocol pack version present in the Cisco IOS image.

• To retain the existing protocol pack version irrespective of upgrading to newer version or reverting to a protocol pack of lower version.

• To override the active protocol checks.

Related Commands

The ipnbarresourcescommand is replaced by the ipnbarresourcesprotocol and theipnbarresourcessystem commands. See the ipnbarresourcesprotocol and theipnbarresourcessystemcommands for more information.

To set the expiration time for network-based application recognition (NBAR) flow-link tables on a protocol basis, use the ip nbar resources protocol command in global configuration mode. To set the expiration time to its default value, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

The link age for all protocols is 120 seconds.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

To display a list of supported protocols, enter the match protocol ? or the show ip nbar port-map command.

The ip nbar resources protocol command must include the protocol-name argument to set the link age of a specific protocol. If you do not include the protocol-name argument, the link age timer of all protocols is set to the specified link age value.

The no ip nbar resources protocol command must include the protocol-name argument to reset the link age of a specific protocol. If you do not include the protocol-name argument, the link age timer of all protocols is set to 120 seconds.

If you enter a protocol name that does not exist, the following error message is displayed:

%NBAR ERROR: <entered string> is not a valid protocol

In addition to resetting the link age in all state nodes associated with a specified protocol, the protocol name, along with its link age, is saved in NVRAM for potential device resets.

Related Commands

This command is deprecated.

To set the expiration time and memory requirements for network-based application recognition (NBAR) flow-link tables on a systemwide basis, use the ip nbar resources system command in global configuration mode. To remove the active links, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

The default system link age is 30 seconds upon NBAR activation.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Because the ip nbar resources system command affects NBAR on a systemwide basis, you should not change the parameters arbitrarily. Doing so may cause NBAR to perform inefficiently or incorrectly. The default values are effective in most instances.

Related Commands

To drop or ignore IP options packets that are sent to the router, use the ip optionscommand in global configuration mode. To disable this functionality and allow all IP options packets to be sent to the router, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

This command is not enabled.

Command Modes

Global configuration

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The ip options command allows you to filter IP options packets, mitigating the effects of IP options on the router, and on downstream routers and hosts.

Drop and ignore modes are mutually exclusive; that is, if the drop mode is configured and you configure the ignore mode, the ignore mode overrides the drop mode.

Cisco 10720 Internet Router

The ip options ignore command is not supported. Only drop mode (the ip options drop command) is supported.

Cisco 10000 Series Router

This command is only available on the PRE3. The PRE2 does not support this command.

The ip options ignore command is not supported. The router supports only the ip options drop command.

To configure Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) admission control compression prediction, use the iprsvpadmission-controlcompressionpredictcommand in interface configuration mode. To disable compression prediction, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

This command is enabled by default. The default value of bytes saved for RTP is 36; for UDP, 20.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpadmission-controlcompressionpredictcommand to disable or enable the RSVP prediction of compression for a specified method or all methods if neither rtp norudpis selected. You can adjust the default compressibility parameter that RSVP uses to compute the compression factor for each flow.

If you use the iprsvpadmission-controlcompressionpredictcommand to change the compression method or the number of bytes saved per packet, these values affect only new flows, not existing ones.

There are two approaches to compression--conservative and aggressive. When you predict compression conservatively, you assume savings of fewer bytes per packet, but receive a higher likelihood of guaranteed quality of service (QoS). You are allowed more bandwidth per call, but each link accommodates fewer calls. When you predict compression aggressively, you assume savings of more bytes per packet, but receive a lower likelihood of guaranteed QoS. You are allowed less bandwidth per call, but each link accommodates more calls.

Related Commands

To enable Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) aggregation on a router, use the iprsvpaggregationip command in global configuration mode. To disable RSVP aggregation, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

RSVP aggregation is disabled.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

When you enable aggregation on a router, the router can act as an aggregator, a deaggregator, or an interior router. To perform aggregator and deaggregator functions, the RSVP process must see messages with the RSVP-E2E-IGNORE protocol type (134) on a router; otherwise, the messages are forwarded as data by the router’s data plane. Theiprsvpaggregationip command enables RSVP to identify messages with the RSVP-E2E-IGNORE protocol. You then configure additional commands to specify the aggregation and deaggregation behavior of end-to-end (E2E) reservations.

The iprsvpaggregationip command registers a router to receive RSVP-E2E-IGNORE messages. It is not necessary to issue this command on interior routers because they are only processing RSVP aggregate reservations. If you do so, you may decrease performance because the interior router will then unnecessarily process all the RSVP-E2E-IGNORE messages.

Note	If you enable RSVP aggregation globally on an interior router, then you should configure all interfaces as interior. Otherwise, interfaces default to exterior and discard RSVP-E2E-IGNORE packets.

Related Commands

To configure Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) aggregation rules that tell a router how to map end-to-end (E2E) reservations onto aggregate reservations, use the iprsvpaggregationipmap command in global configuration mode. To disable RSVP aggregation mapping rules, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No aggregation mapping rules are configured.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpaggregationipmap command to configure a single global rule for mapping E2E reservations onto aggregates.

Before using the iprsvpaggregationipmap command, you should configure an ACL to define a group of RSVP endpoints whose reservations are to be aggregated onto a single DSCP. The ACL can be a standard or extended ACL and matches as follows:

Standard ACLs

• IP address matches the RSVP PATH message sender template or RSVP RESV message filter spec; this is the IP source address or the RSVP sender.

Extended ACLs

The ACLs used within the iprsvpaggregationipmap command match the RSVP message objects as follows for an extended ACL:

• Source IP address and port match the RSVP PATH message sender template or RSVP RESV message filter spec; this is the IP source or the RSVP sender.

• Destination IP address and port match the RSVP PATH/RESV message session object IP address; this is the IP destination address or the RSVP receiver.

• Protocol matches the RSVP PATH/RESV message session object protocol; if protocol = IP, then it matches the source or destination address as above.

Note

In classic (unaggregated) RSVP, a session is identified in the reservation message session object by the destination IP address and protocol information. In RSVP aggregation, a session is identified by the destination IP address and DSCP within the session object of the aggregate RSVP message. E2E reservations are mapped onto a particular aggregate RSVP session identified by the E2E reservation session object alone or a combination of the session object and sender template or filter spec.

Related Commands

To configure Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) aggregate reservation attributes (also called token bucket parameters) on a per-differentiated services code point (DSCP) basis, use the iprsvpaggregationipreservationdscpcommand in global configuration mode. To remove aggregation reservation attributes, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No aggregation reservation attributes (token bucket parameters) are configured.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

You can use the iprsvpaggregationipreservationdscpcommand to configure the token bucket parameters statically.

The data-rate, burst-size, and peak-ratearguments are required on deggregators to help construct the flowspec object for aggregate RESV messages. Existing RSVP procedures specify that the size of a reservation established for a flow is set to the minimum of the PATH sender_tspec and the RESV flowspec. So if the aggregate PATH sender_tspec data-rate, burst-size, or peak-ratearguments are greater than the data-rate, burst-size, or peak-ratearguments configured on the deaggregator, the aggregate RESV flowspec object will contain the minimum of data-rate, burst-size, and peak-rate from the PATH message and the configured values.

When the aggregate reservation size is changed to a value less strict than the total bandwidth of the end-to-end (E2E) reservations mapped to the aggregate, preemption may occur.

When the aggregate bandwidth is lowered, if preemption is required and has not been enabled by issuing the iprsvppolicypreempt command, then the change is rejected and the following messages may appear:

RSVP:AGG: Command not accepted.
RSVP-AGG: This change requires some E2E reservations to be removed and 
RSVP:AGG: preemption is not enabled. Issue 'ip rsvp policy preempt'
RSVP:AGG: in order to make this change.

Related Commands

To configure Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) aggregation on aggregator and deaggregator interior routers facing an aggregation region, use the iprsvpaggregationiproleinterior command in interface configuration mode. To disable RSVP aggregation on aggregator and deaggregator routers, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

RSVP aggregation is not configured on aggregator and deaggregator interior routers.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

This command does not have any effect on a router until end-to-end (E2E) messages arrive on an interface.

If a router is an interior node for all E2E flows, you do not have to configure any aggregation commands. RSVP will not get notifications on any of the RSVP-E2E-IGNORE messages that are forwarded as IP datagrams; however, because the router is loaded with an image that supports aggregation, the router will process aggregate signaling messages correctly.

If you enable aggregation on an interior node, all its interfaces must be configured as interior. Otherwise, all the interfaces have the exterior role, and any E2E Path (E2E-IGNORE) messages arriving at the router are discarded.

In summary, there are two options for an interior router:

• No RSVP aggregation configuration commands are entered.

• Aggregation is enabled and all interfaces are configured as interior.

If the interior role of an interface is unconfigured, all aggregate and E2E reservations installed on that interface are brought down.

Additional Required Configuration Commands

If you enable aggregation on any RSVP interface on an aggregator or deaggregator as well as interfaces of interior routers, you must also configure the following commands:

• ip rsvp resource-provider none

• ip rsvp data-packet classification none

The reason for configuring these commands is because Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)SRC and Cisco IOS XE Release 2.6 support control plane aggregation only. The RSVP data packet classifier does not support aggregation. Data plane aggregation must be achieved by using the RSVP Scalability Enhancements feature.

Related Commands

To set a limit on the peak cell rate (PCR) of reservations for all newly created Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) switched virtual circuits (SVCs) established on the current interface or any of its subinterfaces, use the iprsvpatm-peak-rate-limit command in interface configuration mode. To remove the current peak rate limit, in which case the reservation peak rate is limited by the line rate, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

The peak rate of a reservation defaults to the line rate.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Each RSVP reservation corresponds to an ATM SVC with a certain peak cell rate (PCR), sustainable cell rate (SCR), and maximum burst size. The PCR, also referred to as the peak rate, can be configured by the user or allowed to default to the line rate.

RSVP controlled-load reservations do not define any peak rate for the data. By convention, the allowable peak rate in such reservations is taken to be infinity, which is usually represented by a very large number. Under these circumstances, when a controlled-load reservation is converted to an ATM SVC, the PCR for the SVC becomes correspondingly large and may be out of range for the switch. You can use the iprsvpatm-peak-rate-limit command to limit the peak rate.

The following con ditions determine the peak rate limit on the RSVP SVC:

• The peak rate defaults to the line rate.

• If the peak rate is greater than the configured peak rate limiter, the peak rate is lowered to the peak rate limiter.

• The peak rate cannot be less than the reservation bandwidth. If this is the case, the peak rate is raised to the reservation bandwidth.

Note	Bandwidth conversions applied to the ATM space from the RSVP space are also applied to the peak rate.

The peak rate limit is local to the router; it does not affect the normal messaging of RSVP. Only the SVC setup is affected. Large peak rates are sent to the next host without modification.

For RSVP SVCs established on subinterfaces, the peak rate limit applied to the subinterface takes effect on all SVCs created on that subinterface. If a peak rate limit is applied to the main interface, the rate limit has no effect on SVCs created on a subinterface of the main interface even if the limit value on the main interface is lower than the limit applied to the subinterface.

For a given interface or subinterface, a peak rate limit applied to that interface affects only new SVCs created on the interface, not existing SVCs.

Note	This command is available only on interfaces that support the iprsvpsvc-required command.

Use the showiprsvpatm-peak-rate-limit command to determine the peak rate limit set for an interface or subinterface, if one is configured.

Related Commands

To activate Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) cryptographic authentication, use the iprsvpauthenticationcommand in interface configuration mode. To deactivate authentication, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

RSVP cryptographic authentication is deactivated.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpauthentication command to deactivate and then reactivate RSVP authentication without reentering the other RSVP authentication configuration commands. You should not enable authentication unless you have previously configured a key. If you issue this command before the iprsvpauthenticationkey command, you get a warning message indicating that RSVP discards all messages until you specify a key. The noiprsvpauthenticationcommand disables RSVP cryptographic authentication. However, the command does not automatically remove any other authentication parameters that you have configured. You must issue a specific noiprsvpauthenticationcommand; for example, noiprsvpauthenticationkey,noiprsvpauthenticationtype, or noiprsvpauthenticationwindow-size, if you want to remove them from the configuration.

Theiprsvpauthenticationcommand is similar to theiprsvpneighbor command. However, the iprsvpauthentication command provides better authentication and performs system logging.

Related Commands

To make Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) perform a challenge-response handshake with any new RSVP neighbors on a network, use the iprsvpauthenticationchallengecommand in interface configuration mode. To disable the challenge-response handshake, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

The challenge-response handshake initiated by this command is disabled.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The iprsvpauthenticationchallenge command requires RSVP to perform a challenge-response handshake with any new RSVP neighbors that are discovered on a network. Such a handshake allows the router to thwart RSVP message replay attacks while booting, especially if there is a long period of inactivity from trusted RSVP neighbors following the reboot. If messages from trusted RSVP neighbors arrive very quickly after the router reboots, then challenges may not be required because the router will have reestablished its security associations with the trusted nodes before the untrusted nodes can attempt replay attacks.

If you enable RSVP authentication globally on an interface over which a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) travels and the router on which authentication is enabled experiences a stateful switchover (SSO), the following occurs:

• If challenges are disabled (you did not specify the iprsvpauthenticationchallenge command), the LSP recovers properly.

• If challenges are enabled (you specified the iprsvpauthenticationchallenge command), more RSVP signaling messages are required and the LSP takes longer to recover or the forwarding state may time out and the LSP does not recover. If a timeout occurs, data packet forwarding is interrupted while the headend router signals a new LSP.

If you enable RSVP authentication challenges, you should consider enabling RSVP refresh reduction by using the iprsvpsignallingrefreshreduction command. While a challenge handshake is in progress, the receiving router that is initiating the handshake discards all RSVP messages from the node that is being challenged until the handshake-initiating router receives a valid challenge response.

Note

If a neighbor does not reply to the first challenge message after 1 second, the Cisco IOS software sends another challenge message and waits 2 seconds. If no response is received to the second challenge, the Cisco IOS software sends another and waits 4 seconds. If no response to the third challenge is received, the Cisco IOS software sends a fourth challenge and waits 8 seconds. If there is no response to the fourth challenge, the Cisco IOS software stops the current challenge to that neighbor, logs a system error message, and does not create a security association for that neighbor. This kind of exponential backoff is used to recover from challenges dropped by the network or busy neighbors.

Activating refresh reduction enables the challenged node to resend dropped messages more quickly once the handshake has completed. This causes RSVP to reestablish reservation state faster when the router reboots.

Enable authentication challenges wherever possible to reduce the router’s vulnerability to replay attacks.

Related Commands

To specify the key (string) for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) authentication algorithm, use the iprsvpauthenticationkeycommand in interface configuration mode. To disable the key, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No key is specified.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpauthenticationkey command to select the key for the authentication algorithm. This key is a passphrase of 8 to 40 characters. It can include spaces; quotes are not required if spaces are used. The key can consist of more than one word. We recommend that you make the passphrase as long as possible. This key must be the same for all RSVP neighbors on this interface. As with all passwords, you should choose them carefully so that attackers cannot easily guess them.

Here are some guidelines:

• Use a mixture of upper- and lowercase letters, digits, and punctuation.

• If using just a single word, do not use a word contained in any dictionary of any language, spelling lists, or other lists of words.

• Use something easily remembered so you do not have to write it down.

• Do not let it appear in clear text in any file or script or on a piece of paper attached to a terminal.

By default, RSVP authentication keys are stored in clear text in the router configuration file, but they can optionally be stored as encrypted text in the configuration file. To enable key encryption, use the global configuration keyconfig-key1stringcommand. After you enter this command, the passphrase parameter of each iprsvpauthenticationkey command is encrypted with the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm when you save the configuration file. If you later issue a nokeyconfig-key 1 stringcommand, the RSVP authentication key is stored in clear text again when you save the configuration.

The stringargumentis not stored in the configuration file; it is stored only in the router’s private NVRAM and will not appear in the output of a showrunning-configor showconfig command. Therefore, if you copy the configuration file to another router, any encrypted RSVP keys in that file will not be successfully decrypted by RSVP when the router boots and RSVP authentication will not operate correctly. To recover from this, follow these steps on the new router:

1. For each RSVP interface with an authentication key, issue a noiprsvpauthenticationkeycommand to clear the old key.

2. For that same set of RSVP interfaces, issue an iprsvpauthenticationkey command to reconfigure the correct clear text keys.

3. Issue a global keyconfig-key 1 stringcommand to reencrypt the RSVP keys for the new router.

4. Save the configuration.

Related Commands

To specify a list of keys for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) neighbors, use the iprsvpauthenticationkey-chaincommand in global configuration mode. To disable the key chain, use the no form of this command. To set the key chain to its default, use the noform of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

No key chain is specified.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpauthenticationkey-chain command to select the key chain.

Note	You cannot use theiprsvpauthenticationkey and the iprsvpauthenticationkey-chain commands on the same router interface. The commands supersede each other; however, no error message is generated.

Related Commands

To control how long Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) maintains security associations with other trusted RSVP neighbors, use the iprsvpauthenticationlifetimecommand in interface configuration mode. To disable the lifetime setting, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

If you do not specify a security association lifetime setting, 30 minutes is used.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use theiprsvpauthenticationlifetime command to indicate when to end security associations with RSVP trusted neighbors. If an association’s lifetime expires, but at least one valid, RSVP authenticated message was received in that time period, RSVP resets the security association’s lifetime to this configured value. When a neighbor stops sending RSVP signaling messages (that is, the last reservation has been torn down), the memory used for the security association is freed as well as when the association’s lifetime period ends. The association can be re-created if that RSVP neighbor resumes its signaling. Setting the lifetime to shorter periods allows memory to be recovered faster when the router is handling a lot of short-lived reservations. Setting the lifetime to longer periods reduces the workload on the router when establishing new authenticated reservations.

Use the cleariprsvpauthentication command to free security associations before their lifetimes expire.

Related Commands

To activate Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) cryptographic authentication for a neighbor, use the iprsvpauthenticationneighborcommand in global configuration mode. To deactivate authentication for a neighbor, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

Neighbor cryptographic authentication is disabled.

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

If you omit the optional keywords, the iprsvpauthenticationneighbor command enables RSVP cryptographic authentication for a neighbor. Using the optional keywords inherits the global defaults.

In order to enable per-neighbor authentication, you must issue the iprsvpauthenticationneighborcommand(or the noiprsvpauthenticationneighbor command to disable authentication ). If you issue the iprsvpauthentication command without neighbor, then this command enables authentication for all neighbors and interfaces, regardless of whether there are any per-neighbor or per-interface keys defined. If you issue the iprsvpauthenticationneighborcommand , then authentication is enabled only for that neighbor.

Access Control Lists

A single ACL can describe all the physical and logical interfaces that one neighbor can use to receive RSVP messages from a router; this can be useful when multiple routes exist between two neighbors. One ACL could also specify a number of different neighbors who, along with your router, will share the same key(s); however, this is generally not considered to be good network security practice.

If numbered, the ACL must be in the 1 to 99 range or the 1300 to 1999 range, giving a total of 798 numbered ACLs that can be used to configure neighbor keys (assuming some of them are not being used for other purposes). There is no enforced limit on the number of standard named IP ACLs. The IP addresses used in the ACL should contain at least the neighbor’s physical interface addresses; router ID addresses can be added if necessary, especially when using Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE).

The existingipaccess-liststandard command must be used for creating named or numbered standard IP ACLs for RSVP neighbors because standard ACLs deal with just source or destination addresses while extended ACLs deal with five tuples and are more complex to configure. The RSVP CLI returns an error message if any type of ACL other than standard is specified:

Router(config)# ip rsvp authentication neighbor access-list 10 key-chain wednesday
% Invalid access list name.
RSVP error: unable to find/create ACL

Named standard IP ACLs are also recommended because you can include the neighbor router’s hostname as part of the ACL name, thereby making it easy to identify the per-neighbor ACLs in your router configuration.

The RSVP CLI displays an error message if a valid named or numbered ACL is specified, but a nonexistent or invalid key chain has not been associated with it, since the lack of a key chain could cause RSVP messages to or from that neighbor to be dropped:

Router(config)# ip rsvp authentication neighbor access-list myneighbor key-chain xyz
RSVP error: Invalid argument(s)

Key Chains

In the key-chain parameter, the keys are used in order of ascending expiration deadlines. The only restriction on the name is that it cannot contain spaces. The key-chain parameter is optional; that is, you could omit it if you were trying to change other optional authentication parameters for the RSVP neighbor. However, when searching for a key, RSVP ignores any iprsvpauthenticationneighboraccess-listcommand that does not include a key-chain parameter that refers to a valid key chain with at least one unexpired key.

Error and Warning Conditions

The RSVP CLI returns an error if any of the key IDs in the chain are duplicates of key IDs in any other chains already assigned to RSVP; for example,

Router(config)# ip rsvp authentication neighbor access-list myneighbor key-chain abc
RSVP error: key chains abc and xyz contain duplicate key ID 1
RSVP error: Invalid argument(s)

The RSVP CLI returns an error if the specified key chain does not exist or does not contain at least one unexpired key.

If a key chain is properly defined and RSVP later tries to send a message to that neighbor, but cannot find a valid, unexpired per-neighbor or per-interface key, RSVP generates the RSVP_AUTH_NO_KEYS_LEFT system message indicating that a key could not be obtained for that neighbor.

If the key chain contains keys with finite expiration times, RSVP generates the RSVP_AUTH_ONE_KEY_EXPIRED message to indicate when each key has expired.

If RSVP receives a message from a neighbor with the wrong digest type, it generates the RSVP_MSG_AUTH_TYPE_MISMATCH system message indicating that there is a digest type mismatch with that neighbor.

If RSVP receives a message that is a duplicate of a message already in the window or is outside the window, RSVP logs the BAD_RSVP_MSG_RCVD_AUTH_DUP or the BAD_RSVP_MSG_RCVD_AUTH_WIN error message indicating that the message sequence number is invalid.

If a challenge of a neighbor fails or times out, RSVP generates the BAD_RSVP_MSG_RCVD_AUTH_COOKIE system message or the RSVP_MSG_AUTH_CHALLENGE_TIMEOUT message, indicating that the specified neighbor failed to respond successfully to a challenge.

Related Commands

To specify the type of algorithm used to generate cryptographic signatures in Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) messages, use the iprsvpauthenticationtypecommand in interface configuration or global configuration mode. To specify that no type of algorithm is used, use the no form of this command. To remove the type from your configuration, use the default form of this command.

Note	Before you use thenoiprsvpauthenticationtype command, see the “Usage Guidelines” section for more information.

Syntax Description

Command Default

If no algorithm is specifed, md5 is used.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)
Global configuration (config)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpauthenticationtype command to specify the algorithm to generate cryptographic signatures in RSVP messages. If you do not specify an algorithm, md5 is used.

If you use the iprsvpauthenticationtype command rather than the iprsvpauthenticationneighbortypecommand, the global default for type changes.

The noiprsvpauthenticationtypecommandisnotsupportedinCiscoIOSReleases12.0Sand12.2Sbecauseeverysecurityassociationmusthaveadigesttype,andyoucannotdisableit.Usethedefaultiprsvpauthenticationtypecommandtoremovetheauthenticationtypefromaconfigurationandforcethetypetoitsdefault.

Although the noiprsvpauthenticationtype command is supported in Cisco IOS T releases, the defaultiprsvpauthenticationtype command is recommended toremovetheauthenticationtypefromaconfigurationandforcethetypetoitsdefault.

Related Commands

To specify the maximum number of Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) authenticated messages that can be received out of order, use the iprsvpauthenticationwindow-sizecommand in interface configuration mode. To disable the window size (or to use the default value of 1), use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

If no window size is specified, a value of 1 is used.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

Use the iprsvpauthenticationwindow-sizecommand to specify the maximum number of RSVP authenticated messages that can be received out of order. All RSVP authenticated messages include a sequence number that is used to prevent replays of RSVP messages.

With a default window size of one message, RSVP rejects any duplicate authenticated messages because they are assumed to be replay attacks. However, sometimes bursts of RSVP messages become reordered between RSVP neighbors. If this occurs on a regular basis, and you can verify that the node sending the burst of messages is trusted, you can use the iprsvpauthenticationwindow-size command option to allow for the burst size such that RSVP will not discard such reordered bursts. RSVP will still check for duplicate messages within these bursts.

Related Commands

To enable Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for IP on an interface, use the ip rsvp bandwidth command in interface configuration mode. To disable RSVP completely, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

RSVP is disabled by default. If you enter the ip rsvp bandwidth command without any bandwidth values (for example, ip rsvp bandwidth followed by pressing the Enter key), a default bandwidth value (that is, 75 percent of the link bandwidth) is assumed for both the interface-bandwidth and single-flow-bandwidth arguments.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

RSVP cannot be configured with distributed Cisco Express Forwarding.

RSVP is disabled by default to allow backward compatibility with systems that do not implement RSVP.

Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) or fair queueing must be enabled first.

When using this command for DS-TE in IETF Standard mode, you must use either rdm and its arguments or mam and its arguments; you cannot use both. For more details about each alternative, see Russian Dolls Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering by F. Le Faucheur (RFC 4127) and Maximum Allocation Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering by F. Le Faucheur and W. Lai (RFC 4125).

To eliminate only the subpool portion of the bandwidth, use the no form of this command with the sub-pool keyword.

You can use the ip rsvp bandwidth ingress command to enable the ingress Call Admission Control (CAC) functionality. You can use the no ip rsvp bandwidth command to disable the ingress CAC functionality on an interface. However, this command also disables RSVP on the interface. To disable only the ingress functionality on the interface, use the ip rsvp bandwidth interface-bandwidth single-flow-bandwidth command.

All the configurations related to the ip rsvp bandwidth command are applicable for both IPv4 and IPv6 sessions. The IPv4 and IPv6 sessions are admitted only if there is enough bandwidth available in the common bandwidth pool. It is not possible to apply a separate bandwidth limit for IPv4 reservations and IPv6 reservations.

Related Commands

To ignore the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) tunnel bandwidth configuration, use the iprsvpbandwidthignore command in interface configuration mode.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Command Default

The RSVP tunnel bandwidth configuration is used.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

You can use the iprsvpbandwidthignore command to ignore any RSVP bandwidth configuration on the tunnel. If you need to reconfigure the RSVP bandwidth, use theiprsvpbandwidth or iprsvpbandwidthpercent command.

Related Commands

To enable Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for IP on an interface and to configure percentages of bandwidth available for RSVP and single flow bandwidth pools, use the iprsvpbandwidthpercentcommand in interface configuration mode. To disable RSVP on an interface, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

Command Default

RSVP is disabled by default; therefore, no percentage of bandwidth is set.

Command Modes

Interface configuration (config-if)

Command History

Usage Guidelines

RSVP cannot be configured with distributed Cisco Express Forwarding.

RSVP is disabled by default to allow backward compatibility with systems that do not implement RSVP.

Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) or fair queueing must be enabled first.

Use the iprsvpbandwidthpercent command to set the RSVP bandwidth pool to a specified percentage of interface bandwidth. When you issue the iprsvpbandwidthpercent command, the RSVP bandwidth pool adjusts dynamically whenever the bandwidth of the interface changes.

You can use the iprsvpbandwidthpercentpercent-bandwidthpercentflow-bandwidthcommandtoconfigure a percentage of interface bandwidth as RSVP bandwidth. The RSVP bandwidth is used to perform RSVP Connection Admission Control (CAC). This command allows oversubscription. That is, you can configure more than 100 percent of the interface bandwidth to be used as RSVP bandwidth and per flow bandwidth.

You can choose to configure an absolute value as the amount of bandwidth used for RSVP by using the iprsvpbandwidthrsvp-bandwidth command on the member links of a bundle. If you use the iprsvpbandwidthpercentrsvp-bandwidth command, then the RSVP bandwidth changes in parallel with the change in the interface bandwidth. The RSVP bandwidth of the bundle depends only on the bundle interface’s bandwidth, which in turn depends on the interface bandwidth of the member link and not on the RSVP bandwidth of member link.

The iprsvpbandwidthpercent command is blocked on interfaces on which dynamic update of RSVP bandwidth is not supported. A debug message appears if an RSVP client attempts to configure the iprsvpbandwidthpercent command on an unsupported interface.

In Cisco IOS Release 15.1(2)T, the iprsvpbandwidthpercent command is supported on Multilevel Precedence and Preemption (MLPP) and Multilink Frame Relay (MFR) interfaces.

Related Commands