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Project Progress Report: Guok-ESnet-December-2004-Report
Date: June 2004 - December 2004
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Project Title:	ESnet On-demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation
                System (OSCARS)
PI: Chin Guok
Co-PI: 
Institution: ESnet

Number: Graduate Students:  0
Number of PhD Students:  0
Number of PostDoc Fellows:  0
Project Website (if available): www.es.net/oscars

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Summary of report

- Configured the first LSP for testing between BNL and FNAL.
- Deployed new hardware at GA in anticipation of OSCARS participation.

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Detailed Report

A subset of the ESnet WAN was configured in the ESnet's development network 
to test MPLS, RSVP, and QoS parameters optimal for the OSCARS project.  The
parameter have since been deployed into the ESnet production WAN.

A test LSP was configured between BNL and FNAL to examine the
characteristics of a guaranteed bandwidth path.  Only traffic from specific
source/destination IP addresses with predetermined DSCP bits (as seen at the
ESnet border routers) were injected into the LSP.  To prevent disruption of
production routing, the LSP were configured in a separate routing instance.
This in essence cleanly segregates the routing tables used for production
routing and the OSCARS LSP.

In testing the LSP, we have noticed inappropriate behavior by the Juniper
policer (which is used to throttle the traffic on the LSP to the reserved
amount).  We have fed the information back to Juniper and are working with
them to resolve the issue.

As of Nov 17 2004, we have deployed into production a Juniper M7i at GA.
The deployment of this router will effectively allow us to configure a test
LSP between GA and NERSC for application level testing.

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