Monday, April 19, 2021

Config help - Juniper switches, Pelco VxPro system

Hi /r/networking

I need some help. For reference, here is topology: https://i.imgur.com/TFlWRPr.jpg

I have 3 EX3400's, passing vlan 604 via xe-0/2/2 on all back to a QFX5100 VCP, all ex3400's connect to re0. These xe interfaces are dedicated, no other vlans sharing the port, so they have 10GB carved out. Bandwidth seems to be about 250Mbps, so not much.

Connected to EX3400-1, there is a Pelco (Pelco logo on Dell) server connected to ge-0/0/21, camera in ge-0/0/33 (sorry for wrong port # in that drawing). Both ports are in vlan 604. No special config. It is the Pelco VxPro system.

Connected to EX3400-2 and EX3400-3 are also cameras, same vlan, vlan trunked along as you'd expect. Pelco server sees all cameras. Pelco server reporting significant packet loss albeit varying at times the amounts of it. It seems to be somewhat related to load but not a definite correlation. According to the Pelco client machine, it defines the packet loss as lost RTSP packets... sequence numbers missing.

I did see the Pelco guide (https://support.pelco.com/s/article/How-to-determine-UDP-packet-loss-of-IP-cameras-connected-to-Digital-Sentry-systems-1538586677120) to debug it further. I'll go do more of this when I am at the site next and have access to the test env.

The loss is present on EX3400-1 with camera, workstation, and server all in same subnet/vlan/switch. So obviously the fiber links are not the issue. I also verified on the ports on ex3400-1 to see:

[from ge-0/0/21]

dbh2@ex3400-1.site> show configuration interfaces ge-0/0/21 | display inheritance unit 0 { family ethernet-switching { ## ## 'vlan' was expanded from interface-range 'ipcams' ## vlan { ## ## 'ipcams' was expanded from interface-range 'ipcams' ## members ipcams; } storm-control default; } } Input errors: Errors: 0, Drops: 0, Framing errors: 0, Runts: 0, Policed discards: 0, L3 incompletes: 0, L2 channel errors: 0, L2 mismatch timeouts: 0, FIFO errors: 0, Resource errors: 0 Output errors: Carrier transitions: 63, Errors: 0, Drops: 144436, Collisions: 0, Aged packets: 0, FIFO errors: 0, HS link CRC errors: 0, MTU errors: 0, Resource errors: 0 

(…)

MAC statistics: Receive Transmit Total octets 7497489178 7082649693203 Total packets 9545704 5211644387 Unicast packets 7340055 2619945304 Broadcast packets 3977 150329 Multicast packets 2201672 2591548754 CRC/Align errors 0 0 FIFO errors 0 0 MAC control frames 0 0 MAC pause frames 0 0 Oversized frames 0 Jabber frames 0 Fragment frames 0 VLAN tagged frames 0 Code violations 0 

[from ge-0/0/33]

 dbh2@ex3400-1.site> show configuration interfaces ge-0/0/33 | display inheritance unit 0 { family ethernet-switching { ## ## 'vlan' was expanded from interface-range 'ipcams' ## vlan { ## ## 'ipcams' was expanded from interface-range 'ipcams' ## members ipcams; } storm-control default; } } Input errors: Errors: 0, Drops: 0, Framing errors: 0, Runts: 0, Policed discards: 0, L3 incompletes: 0, L2 channel errors: 0, L2 mismatch timeouts: 0, FIFO errors: 0, Resource errors: 0 Output errors: Carrier transitions: 29, Errors: 0, Drops: 20466306, Collisions: 0, Aged packets: 0, FIFO errors: 0, HS link CRC errors: 0, MTU errors: 0, Resource errors: 0 

(…)

 MAC statistics: Receive Transmit Total octets 2553034989358 2309921829955 Total packets 1833105948 1710322394 Unicast packets 1832969984 3100238 Broadcast packets 96484 45774 Multicast packets 39480 1707176382 CRC/Align errors 0 0 FIFO errors 0 0 MAC control frames 0 0 MAC pause frames 0 0 Oversized frames 0 Jabber frames 0 Fragment frames 0 VLAN tagged frames 0 Code violations 0 

Are there any config things I should know about IP cameras on Juniper? I'm semi green and I have no experience with IP cameras and networks to back them up.



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