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A bit about TCP BBR - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/a_bit_about_bbr
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. A bit about TCP BBR. Knowing something like BBR must exist was maddening and motivating. Rdquo; - that person asked - and I poked deeper and saw, seemingly - that the cwnd was a bit weird, but nothing I could put a finger on. I wasn’t in a position to guess, further, that BBR. Had also been deployed there - nor am I sure it actually was, at the time - I don’t think it was, not in its present form, at least. It had a very good idea in it:. Note: The BBR...
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Cruzio and Meraki make my day - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/meraki_and_cruzio_make_my_day
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. Cruzio and Meraki make my day. Every so often theres good news over coffee. My favorite coffee shop in Santa Cruz is the Pergolesi. Back in the early 2000s, it was one of the first ones that offered free wifi. Several people I knew then helped them set that up in exhange for free coffee - it was a heck of a deal for both parties - they got more customers - and the thirdbreak. Many of my friends use the cruzio ISP. None, presently. Sigh. Flent Network T...
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Posts - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
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CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. Ive never really recovered from the loss of the lab. Posted on February 11, 2017. Posted on December 23, 2016. Not) Getting a fair share from 4 queues. Posted on December 12, 2016. Cruzio and Meraki make my day. Posted on October 20, 2016. Finally. the real net-next 4.8 fq codel/airtime-fair ath9k results. Posted on October 12, 2016. Some traceroutes from Nicaragua. Posted on October 12, 2016. Exploring wifi mcs rates with fq codel. A bit about TCP BBR.
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Some traceroutes from Nicaragua - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/nicaragua
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. Some traceroutes from Nicaragua. It seemed like the entire country was behind one big nat. What does your internet look like? How can you figure out anything about your userbase if your users are behind 7! Layers of private network? Yes - 1143ms RTT on this test. And I at least - had no extra traffic on the link. How the heck can IPv6 ever deploy with this much nat in the way? None, presently. Sigh. Comcast Research Innovation Fund. October 12, 2016.
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A simple routing trick makes my tests easier - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/routing_test_tricks
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. A simple routing trick makes my tests easier. Try this in your topology! The APs in the yurtlab are mostly in a routed configuration, where all the devices under test are on the same ethernet switch. To do a test of some configuration, all I do is do a ifdown lan on the devices I want to talk to wirelessly, and the babel protocol figures out which way to go. This saves hugely on renaming, and renumbering things. If you don’t have pdsh:. Dave@nemesis: /...
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Exploring wifi mcs rates with fq_codel - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/mcs_rates
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. Exploring wifi mcs rates with fq codel. Theres always something else wrong. I don’t trust anyone else’s test tools. I make enough mistakes using flent. And I spend a maddening amount of time trying to figure out ways to test no more than two variables in isolation - or to confidently test dozens and draw a sane conclusion from large set of statistically significant results. Often, I fail. We’re winning, or so I thought last night. I’m driving thi...
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(not) Getting a fair share from 4 queues - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/birthday_problem
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. Not) Getting a fair share from 4 queues. Hardware queues can be a PITA. More and more hardware has hardware queues for the network interface. Some (such as my apu2) have only 4. Hardware queues are “in there” not to make the network better, but to make the cpu load more even, but this tends to unevenly service any given load whenever there is a hash collision. The birthday problem. Uses an 8 way set associative hash. None, presently. Sigh. We can also ...
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OSX keeps winning, darn it... - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/osx_unfairness
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. OSX keeps winning, darn it. I’ve got odd results from my OSX mavericks machine over wifi, and I was encouraged to upgrade to the latest OSX, which I finally did last week. Still, the results are odd, compared to the Linux tests I run. Do they have better radios? Possibly - Apple must have a 1000 people dedicated to making their wireless stuff work. Cheating? No…. Apple wouldn’t. Hellip; would they? But how do you explain this? Could be. Better ante...
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Finally... the real net-next 4.8 fq_codel/airtime-fair ath9k results - http://blog.cerowrt.org/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/real_results
CeroWrt notebook: On fixing the internet since 2011. Finally. the real net-next 4.8 fq codel/airtime-fair ath9k results. Getting to this point took 4 long years. When experiments go awry. Sometimes you learn something. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is a definition of insanity - doing a different thing different ways, all the time, must be saner, right? Where I was essentially testing the TCP path in the AP:. OSX and Linux (ath10k). OSX and Linux (ath10k). Are very ...
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