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Chapter41 Configuring Cisco IOS IP SLAs Operat ion s Configuring IP SLAs Operations
Per-direction delay (one-way delay)
Round-trip delay (average round-trip time)
Because the paths for the sending and receiving of data can be different (asymmetric), you can use the
per-direction data to more readily identify where congesti on or o th er p rob lem s a re o cc urri ng in the
network.
The UDP jitter operation generates synthetic (simulated) UDP traffic and sends a number of UDP
packets, each of a specified size, sent a specified number of milliseconds apart, from a source router to
a target router, at a given frequency. By default, ten packet-frames, each with a payload size of 10 bytes
are generated every 10 ms, and the operation is repeated every 60 seconds. You can configure each of
these parameters to best simulate the IP service you want to provide.
To provide accurate one-way delay (latency) measurements, time synchronization, such as that provided
by NTP, is required between the source and the target device. Time synchronization is not required for
the one-way jitter and packet loss measurements. If the time is not synchronized betwee n the source and
target devices, one-way jitter and packet loss data is returned, but values of 0 are returned for the
one-way delay measurements provided by the UDP jitter operation
Note Before you configure a UDP jitter operation on the source device, you must enable the IP SLAs
responder on the target device (the operational target).
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure UDP jitter operation on the source
device:
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 ip sla operation-number Create an IP SLAs operation, and enter IP SLAs configuration mode.