Might be time to take another look at your procera config.

On April 26, 2015 7:47:25 PM AKDT, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> wrote:
>You have got to be kidding me? CDN traffic being discarded 50%? What
>exactly would this be? The Procera box picked this traffic up as "HTTP
>Download" so it wasn't streaming. Only other thing I can think of is
>this
>customer has an XBOX maybe it was downloading an update? with 50%
>packet
>loss no wonder they called and complained, said they couldn't do
>anything....
>
>
>Kurt Fankhauser
>
>Wavelinc Communications
>
>P.O. Box 126
>
>Bucyrus, OH 44820
>
>http://www.wavelinc.com
>
>tel. 419-562-6405
>
>fax. 419-617-0110
>
>On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Faisal Imtiaz
><[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I missed that .. :)
>>
>> Faisal Imtiaz
>> Snappy Internet & Telecom
>> 7266 SW 48 Street
>> Miami, FL 33155
>> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
>>
>> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected]
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From: *"George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting)" <[email protected]>
>> *To: *[email protected]
>> *Sent: *Sunday, April 26, 2015 9:50:17 PM
>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] 450SM sustain bucket throttle not working..
>>
>> I know. I was being sarcastic.
>>
>> It doesn't seem fair that they do TCP congestion control in a way
>that
>> doubles the traffic and we end up discarding 50% anyway, but it still
>fills
>> up our pipes. Just sayin'.
>>
>> On 4/26/2015 8:37 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
>>
>> I see that the net neutrality is going to be the next boogieman under
>the
>> bed for WISP's from now on...
>>
>> Please, please, please, correct your understanding on
>Net-Neutrality...
>>
>> It allows for one to traffic shape any and all kinds of traffic, as
>long
>> as :-
>>    a) You declare your practice on your website.
>>    b) You DON"T DO IT specific to A SPECIFIC Network.. i.e. all VOIP,
>or
>> all Video, or ALL Streaming..
>>      (applying a throttle on video to netflix while allowing Hulu
>would be
>> considered a violation, but applying throttle to all types of video
>content
>> is NOT !)
>>
>>
>> :)
>>
>>
>> Faisal Imtiaz
>> Snappy Internet & Telecom
>> 7266 SW 48 Street
>> Miami, FL 33155
>> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
>>
>> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected]
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From: *"George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting)" <[email protected]>
>> <[email protected]>
>> *To: *[email protected]
>> *Sent: *Sunday, April 26, 2015 7:12:13 PM
>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] 450SM sustain bucket throttle not working..
>>
>> So you'd be purposely slowing down or blocking legitimate traffic
>from an
>> edge provider to the customer? Oh no, net neutrality violation!
>>
>> So when everyone starts with the 4k streaming and we're selling the
>> customer 20Mbps, then we have to take on 40Mbps because of this!?
>>
>> On 4/26/2015 5:58 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>> I could justify declaring such traffic an attack and blocking the
>source
>> as malicious.
>>
>> *From:* George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, April 26, 2015 4:30 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 450SM sustain bucket throttle not working..
>>
>> Yep, I see this all the time and Ken is exactly right. The Canopy QoS
>> works exactly as designed, the AP is definitely not delivering more
>than
>> the sustained rate, but is instead discarding the extra 50%. I've
>tested
>> this situation thoroughly. Stick a MT simple queue in at the upstream
>> router and the 2X rate traffic stops hitting the AP's ethernet
>interface,
>> but it's still coming in at double the sustained rate farther
>upstream.
>> There's no way around it except throwing bandwidth at it.
>>
>> This is CDN traffic. And when the customer thinks they can install
>one of
>> those "internet download managers" to speed up their connection. The
>only
>> thing it does is screw with TCP acks or window sizes or something
>which
>> just puts more traffic on your transit just to be discarded at the
>> congestion point (SM, queue, Procera, whatever). Gotta love it.
>>
>> You'd think with 70% of the internets being streaming video they'd
>think
>> hmm.. maybe we can cut down on the peering congestion by NOT doing
>this
>> crap. But no.
>>
>> On 4/26/2015 11:01 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>> Sorry to answer a question with a question, but are you measuring at
>the
>> SM, or at some upstream router?
>>
>> The reason I ask, is I have seen some CDN traffic that does not seem
>to
>> follow traditional TCP congestion control.  It will send at twice the
>rate
>> limit, causing 50% packet loss to its own traffic and everything else
>to
>> that same subscriber.  Evidently some TCP geniuses have decided to
>use
>> latency rather than packet loss as the indicator of congestion, and
>that
>> the objective is goodput not throughput.  Works for last mile
>technologies
>> like T1 and DSL with big buffers at the head end of the fixed speed
>serial
>> connection, not so good with the type of rate limit queues we tend to
>use
>> unless we can provision the queues with big buffers.
>>
>> Probably not your problem, but I thought I’d bring it up just in
>case.
>>
>> *From:* Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, April 26, 2015 10:50 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] 450SM sustain bucket throttle not working..
>>
>> I have a 450 SM that is rate limited in the SM to 1500kbps download
>on the
>> sustain side. I noticed last night that this customer was pulling a
>steady
>> almost 3mbps download for several hours on end. How is this possible?
>Is
>> there a problem with 13.2 firmware? Its a 3.65ghz SM.
>>
>> see attached.
>>
>> Kurt Fankhauser
>>
>> Wavelinc Communications
>>
>> P.O. Box 126
>>
>> Bucyrus, OH 44820
>>
>> http://www.wavelinc.com
>>
>> tel. 419-562-6405
>>
>> fax. 419-617-0110
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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