No problem. The distro I use for my firewall (LEAF-bering) doesn't support cake yet, though I could build the module & cake-aware tc with its toolchain, so I'll continue with HTB+fq_codel & keep an eye on this list.
John On 03/02/17 19:30, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >> On 3 Feb, 2017, at 21:01, John Sager <j...@sager.me.uk> wrote: >> >> As cake uses diffserv to classify, it would be good to carry dscp in the >> conntrack & transfer it to incoming packets with an 'action' on the ingress >> filter, but carrying dscp specifically in the conntrack record would be >> quite a significant change to other parts of linux. Hence the use of fwmark >> and the conntrack mark field, which already exist. > > Yes, this is what I thought you meant. > > As fwmark just sets “a number” on the conntrack record, there’s no reason in > principle not to have that number be a DSCP (or some reasonably transformed > representation of one). The trick is then for cake to extract that number > from the conntrack record (having looked it up), and if it looks valid, to > use it as the packet’s DSCP instead of the one on the packet itself. > > In principle, that should not be difficult. For the moment however, I’ve got > my hands full with writing a report on performance tests I’ve been running, > and then getting reacquainted with some code changes that happened while I > was looking elsewhere. > > - Jonathan Morton > _______________________________________________ Cake mailing list Cake@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cake
