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Post by mjgraves on Nov 17, 2015 18:08:17 GMT
Last week Dave Taht of the Buffer Bloat project made a return appearance on VUC567. He was discussing results from the recent petition to the FCC regarding 3rd party router firmware for consumer routers. His initial appearance on the subject was VUC563 which is available for viewing. Unfortunately, this most recent visit doesn't seem to have been recorded. Toward the end of the call Dave asked who was running other open source router firmware? I advised that I was running SmallWall, and briefly described the origins of the project. He asked if the software had incorporated the "fq_codel" tweaks that overcome the problem of buffer bloat? www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/CakeHe further reported that the changes were already in OpenWRT, and FreeBSD...although I've not found any evidence of when/where this got included. Do we know if this stuff is currently in SmallWall? It help quite dramatically with streaming media applications that are latency sensitive. Thanks Michael
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Post by Lee Sharp on Nov 17, 2015 18:43:38 GMT
Not yet, as I have not had time to figure out how (or if) it can be made to work on FreeBSD 8.4 and with the existing traffic shaper. The existing traffic shaper is key as it is VERY good at traffic management, and may eliminate many of the buffer bloat problems.
But if someone wants to work on this, I would LOVE it!
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Post by mjgraves on Nov 18, 2015 17:28:51 GMT
Lee, You are correct, when enabled and tuned properly the traffic shaper handles the buffer bloat issue nicely. I went from C+ with traffic shaping disabled, to A+ with it enabled and tuned for my measured connection speed. Michael
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Post by Lee Sharp on Nov 19, 2015 2:35:21 GMT
I have yet to find anything better then the old m0n0wall trafic shaper. It is just so easy to set up and it works so well!
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Post by watercooled on Dec 13, 2015 0:23:21 GMT
Likewise! It does a better job and is far easier to get working than anything else I remember trying. E.g. I tried a couple of different shapers on pfSense and despite not being as able to configure, I couldn't seem to get them to work without causing significant packet loss under load - something which m0n0wall manages to do excellently!
Out of interest, is the shaper itself still actively maintained by anyone?
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Post by Lee Sharp on Dec 13, 2015 3:12:12 GMT
Out of interest, is the shaper itself still actively maintained by anyone? This is a loaded question on so many parts of SmallWall! Like the ez-ipupdate... The original maintainer is missing. Suse and Debian have some patches that others are using, but figuring out who "owns it" is hard. And when I knock one down, I get more.
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