Re: QoS for Traffic Shaping?

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris

I don't know if this helps but on the SOURCE side we configured our
routing to route traffic to the TARGET address through a specific
interface using the interface parameter of the ADDTCPRTE command -
that way all outbound traffic to the HA machine goes though a
designated card.

I'm guessing you would have have a specific HA TARGET address separate
from your "production address" so the receiving end will pick up all
the traffic on the preferred interface as a natural consequence of
that.

We actually did a lot more than that to try to provide some redundancy
at the ethernet card level.

Hope this helps

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Chris Bipes
<chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone configured QoS on their iSeries to restrict outbound
> communications?  We have started up mirroring between two systems and
> would like to restrict all traffic between the two iSeries dedicated
> Ethernet interfaces.  They are going across our WAN.  Currently we are
> using our firewall for traffic coping but that is causing to many
> dropped packets and playing havoc with the mirroring software
> communications.
>
> I would like to start QoS and enable traffic shaping at 4o% of my WAN or
> 4Mbps.
>
> I have two old 170's plugged in to the same switch, both at V5R3 that I
> am testing with but I am still getting much more throughput that I
> configured on the sending box.   Any experience out there or suggestion?