[AusNOG] fq_codel/cake/libreqos beta testers wanted

David Trad davidtradconsulting at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 21:59:55 AEDT 2023


I'm curious and looking into this.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, 8:42 pm Dave Taht, <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> A) I have always been curious to what extent, if any, fq_codel, or
> cake made it into any CPE and home routers or deployment, down under?
> Or is it all policers?
>
> I remember Mark Nottingham ran cake for a while, then ran a heat gun
> on edgerouter X he was using... (it was a hilarious picture, I don´t
> remember what forum it was on?)
>
> B) For the last 9 months I have been helping out the libreqos.io
> project leverage xdp, ebpf, rust, and cake (in diffserv4 mode) to
> build a high performance transparent bridge to better shape traffic.
>
> We have got it to where it can push 25Gbits at about 40% of cpu on 16
> cores on a xeon gold for about 10k ISP subscribrs on various plans. We
> are now in rc2 on the v1.4 release, which has a bunch more speedups
> and analytical tools. Another cool feature in it is "on a stick" mode
> where it can go inband on a single port and do the magic across vlans.
>
> I (wearing my scientist hat) am very interested in evaluating network
> behaviors and performance at a mixture of shorter and longer RTTs and
> fiber vs wireless transports. Is there anyone down there willing to
> put this inline on their network? It´s pretty stable code, now, I
> think... I'm pretty sure... and takes about 20 minutes to get setup
> (most of which is compiling the rust)
>
> https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/wiki/v1.4 has the install
> instructions (for the truly daring there is the "heimdall" branch where
> the post 1.4 work is going) and we did a podcast about it here:
>
> https://packetpushers.net/podcast/heavy-networking-666-improving-quality-of-experience-with-libreqos/
>
> thx for any help you can offer!
>
> --
> I keep wondering if sqrt(flows) bdp is correct:
> https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/juniper/
> Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
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