Wireless Access

 View Only
  • 1.  WMM in Aruba wireless controller

    Posted Mar 14, 2025 01:42 PM

    Hi all,

    I setup QoS on our Aruba switched network and used the default queues and classifications.  I did add one port classification where I'm marking TCP/UDP 4100 as DSCP 40 for our Verkada intercom cameras.  Here's the command I used for our switches:  switch#(config) qos tcp-port ipv4 4100 dscp 40 and qos udp-port ipv4 4100 dscp 40

    So I am trying to figure out what I need to do in the wireless controllers to preserve and prioritize DSCP markings.  I started by enabling WMM in the SSID profile for our WLAN. 

    I then took my laptop to see the live video feed of the camera, and here's what I'm seeing in the datapath:

    (us-wc7205c-1dc) [MDC] *#show datapath session table | include 172.19.0.12,P
           H - high prio, P - set prio, T - set ToS
           C - client, M - mirror, V - VOIP
           B - Permanent, O - Openflow
    Source IP or MAC  Destination IP  Prot SPort DPort Cntr     Prio ToS Age Destination TAge Packets    Bytes      Flags           CPU ID

    192.168.50.71     172.19.0.12     6    4100  64836  0/0     5    40  0   tunnel 839  121  80079      111804722                  11

    In watching the Airheads Broadcast videos, I would expect to see Flags showing it was in the high queue.  But there are NO flags for this traffic.  Here's some other traffic in that same datapath for what other traffic that looks like the controller is seeing the markings and placing it into a high queue:

    172.20.0.66       192.168.85.111  17   65009 58599  0/0     5    34  0   local       70c4 10         1060       FHPTCVBO        14

    In this I can see the destination IP address (192.168.85.111) is one of our Apple TV and the controller sees DSCP 34 and puts it in the high queue.

    Does anyone have an advice and what I should do?  why is the TCP port 4100 with DSCP 40 not getting moved to the high queue?



  • 2.  RE: WMM in Aruba wireless controller

    Posted Mar 14, 2025 05:46 PM

    Have you tried assigning the traffic to the high priority queue?



    ------------------------------
    Carson Hulcher, ACEX#110
    ------------------------------



  • 3.  RE: WMM in Aruba wireless controller

    Posted Mar 17, 2025 11:22 AM

    No I haven't tried that yet.  This is my first time setting up QoS, so I'm just wondering.  Why does an applications default markings get read and queued in the controller, while my markings get read and not queued.