Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] Current status and recommendations for APU2C*/ArcherC7 and ath10k platforms?

2017-03-31 Thread Dave Täht
On 3/30/17 1:11 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > leetminiwheat writes: > >> Apologies I haven't had time to follow recent developments but are there >> any recent bufferbloat/CAKE related news/recommendations for the APU2 >> platform? Specifically the APU2C (previous was marvell I believe)

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800 improvements?

2016-12-13 Thread Dave Täht
On 12/13/16 4:58 PM, Matt Taggart wrote: > Hi, > > I love the WNDR3800 platform, it's been great over the years first with > cerowrt and then openwrt. Of the many I've deployed I have only had > hardware problems with 2 of them, and usually uptimes go over 100 days. You > can also still buy t

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Turris Omnia

2016-11-07 Thread Dave Täht
On 11/7/16 6:30 AM, James Cloos wrote: > but with wshaper there were 8 rather than 4 lines matching parent for > each interface. There still are 8 for the 3 ethernet devices, but that > doesn't seem to be a problem The armada chipset in the omnia has 8 hardware queues on the ethernet devic

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Making AQM harder...

2016-08-12 Thread Dave Täht
On 8/13/16 12:26 AM, dpr...@reed.com wrote: > Maybe we all need to buy some Sandvine devices for our homes that detect IW10 > and forge TCP RSTs? Or maybe Ellacoya will develop one for consumers? > > That's what Comcast did when bufferbloat was killing their gear on upload, as > I'm sure we a

[Cerowrt-devel] mediatek gets out some gpl

2016-07-27 Thread Dave Täht
I am hoping they got their wifi driver out there, but am afraid to look at the code drop to find out. At least, it appears to be kernel 3.10.65 based. https://www.xda-developers.com/team-m-a-d-brings-android-6-0-1-marshmallow-and-full-gpl-kernel-for-jiayu-mediatek-devices/

[Cerowrt-devel] conntrack and ipv6

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Täht
It is generally my hope that ipv6 nat will not be widely deployed. Firewalls will be stateful instead, and thus there would be no need to access the conntrack information for ipv6 in cake. I'm not sure, however, to what extent ipv6 conntrack is in openwrt today, certainly udp and tcp, "in" is ess

[Cerowrt-devel] hardware from hell

2016-03-03 Thread Dave Täht
I am A) still fiddling with alternate web site generators and B) just finished writing up (grousing) about all the hardware I just tried to make work. http://the-edge.taht.net/post/hardware_from_hell/ I am about to tear apart the dual ethernet nuc we discussed here, again, swapping out everything

[Cerowrt-devel] gogo in-flight takes a hit

2016-02-17 Thread Dave Täht
Sometimes markets *can* work. I do hope that viasat's new service is bufferbloat-free. Some folk over there at least paid some attention to the technology. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/investors-react-gogo-gogo-stock-182606506.html;_ylt=AwrC3Sza7cRW7mUA51AnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMDgyYjJiBGNvbG8DYmYxBH

[Cerowrt-devel] in the post-cisa world

2016-02-15 Thread Dave Täht
I have been considering exiting the cloud as much as possible for my personal email in particular, and since storage tends to be expensive in the cloud, to keep that also locally for at least some stuff. Barrier #1 to doing that is that comcast blocks port 25 on residential links (I want to upgrad

[Cerowrt-devel] nuc stuff

2016-02-15 Thread Dave Täht
On 2/15/16 8:11 AM, dpr...@reed.com wrote: > BTW, I went shopping for a pure home "gateway" box. What pleased me was this > board, because I am sure it has the "oomph" to deal with up to Gigabit packet > processing (which is where all the current residential ISPs will shortly be). > It has

[Cerowrt-devel] archer c7v2 gets third party unupgradable firmware

2016-02-14 Thread Dave Täht
A pithy note on https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500 - it contains a bitter "thank you" to the FCC - you can't upgrade the firmware to a third party anymore. I can confirm this - the archer c7v2 I got off of amazon last week has firmware 3.14.3, and will not take a web upload

[Cerowrt-devel] quick review: arokh's feature-full build of openwrt

2016-02-14 Thread Dave Täht
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50914 as of feb 13th has many features (like having the luci-ssl gui native, sqm-scripts, and support for nearly all the platforms I have handy (c7v2, linksys 1200ac, wndr 4800 and 4300))... so I replaced a c7v2 router as my default home gateway to see how

[Cerowrt-devel] It's hardware eval time again (basic hardware selection)

2016-02-13 Thread Dave Täht
I had a browse at linuxgizmos last weekend. Wow. The cornucopia machine is open and it is almost impossible to imagine what will happen next! 64 bit arms, 40 bucks. Jeebus. http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2016-with-64-open-spec-hacker-friendly-sbcs/ 2 years back, 64 bit arms cost 1500 bucks. fo

[Cerowrt-devel] very good book on 802.11ac stuff

2016-02-08 Thread Dave Täht
Much more readable than the spec! http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/123401739/ch03.html I still keep hoping for a comprehensive list (or a tool) for timings for every possible operation across all the 802.11 standards. Trying to figure out how long things take "on the wire" makes my brain

[Cerowrt-devel] mt76 board

2016-02-07 Thread Dave Täht
Felix's current focus per-sta queuing is on boards with this chipset. I am going to order a couple, but they may take a month to arrive. Anyone else want one? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wireless-Router-1200Mbps-dual-band-AC-Router-Support-a-SIM-card-for-3-g-4-g/32382460744.html?ws_ab_test=sea

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] AREDN and Make Wifi Fast

2016-02-06 Thread Dave Täht
The simplest thing you can do today to improve latency on your ath9k devices is to disable wmm (802.11e), and to reduce the ath9k driver queues to smaller sizes. I typically run the yurtlab network with a qlen_be of 12 (slow links) to 24 rather than the default. On links with significant speed iss

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] AREDN and Make Wifi Fast

2016-02-06 Thread Dave Täht
peeds have cracked 20Mbit generally, however, the bloat and bad behavior is shifting to wifi, generally. So please try fiddling with your internet uplink(s) first. I look forward to hearing about your gaming results. ;) >> On Feb 2, 2016, at 5:59 PM, Dave Täht wrote: >> >> https

[Cerowrt-devel] nyc gets more wifi

2016-01-27 Thread Dave Täht
I wish more reporters would realize that this is as good as it gets, and as users go more online, life will get worse rapidly. I dream of someone doing a meetup inside that starbucks in NYC, and 5-10 people testing that wifi simultaneously with flent. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498177,

[Cerowrt-devel] better service discovery

2016-01-25 Thread Dave Täht
While at last week's scale conference I ran across a guy doing interesting things in tinc. One of the things he'd pointed out was the general availability of service discovery options using a very flexible many master/client protocol called "raft" - including using it as a dns substitute in his env

[Cerowrt-devel] first 802.11ad appearance

2016-01-20 Thread Dave Täht
It would be so nice, of course, if this was open source from the getgo. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/tp-link-unveils-worlds-first-802-11ad-wigig-router/ ___ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloa

[Cerowrt-devel] router hardening

2016-01-18 Thread Dave Täht
One of my issues with blindly applying techniques to block certain IPs is trusting the sources of the data - many people have ended up on a blocklist that shouldn't have. That said, ipset is so effective and so scalable, that perhaps deploying this by default http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/s

[Cerowrt-devel] [PATCH] skb_flow_dissector: Add support for 6in4 de-encapsulation

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Täht
The existing dissector handled gre and ipip encapsulated packets. This adds support for ipv6 (proto 41) encapsulated packets to the dissector, making possible a better fq_codel hash on 6in4, 6to4 tunnels. --- net/core/flow_dissector.c | 7 +++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/

[Cerowrt-devel] [PATCH] skb_reduce_truesize: helper function for shrinking skbs whenever needed

2012-12-31 Thread Dave Täht
From: Dave Taht On embedded devices in particular, large queues of small packets from the rx path with a large truesize can exist. Reducing their size can reduce memory pressure. skb_reduce_truesize is a helper function for doing this, when needed. --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 18 +

[Cerowrt-devel] [PATCH 2/2] codel: reduce count after exiting dropping state after one maxpacket

2012-08-23 Thread Dave Täht
From: Dave Taht At a knife's edge, where we are rapidly entering and existing a dropping state, seek lower to find the optimimum. --- include/net/codel.h |3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/codel.h b/include/net/codel.h index dbfccb7..5e85632 100644 --- a/includ

[Cerowrt-devel] [PATCH] codel: Refine re-entering drop state to react sooner

2012-08-23 Thread Dave Täht
From: Dave Taht This patch attempts to smooth out codel behavior in several ways. These first two are arguably bugs. 1) Newton's method doesn't run well in reverse, run it twice on a decline 2) Account for the idea of dropping out of drop state after a drop upon entering drop state. 3) the old

[Cerowrt-devel] Working towards reducing memory issues in cerowrt

2012-08-23 Thread Dave Täht
So I was mostly fiddling with codel itself, trying to make it work better on long RTTs, when the memory and oom issues came up. The two patches following for codel are experimental. It will take me multiple days to prove out/dismiss as junk and/or further improve these... During that test cy