Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Bloat] In loving memory of Dave Täht <3

2025-04-02 Thread David P. Reed via Cerowrt-devel
Hi all - I've already shared my sadness and appreciation of my good friend Dave on LinkedIn. I met him through Jim Gettys at the beginning of the Bufferbloat discovery, and besides our long correspondence, I hope I have given him enough support over the years - including introducing him to my

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] In loving memory of Dave Täht <3

2025-04-01 Thread David Lang via Cerowrt-devel
He will be missed. As a practical question, what is going to happen to all of these lists, etc that he has been hosting? David Lang On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, Frantisek Borsik via Bloat wrote: Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 19:27:36 +0200 From: Frantisek Borsik via Bloat Reply-To: Frantisek Borsik To

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] risc-v 2 ethernet port router

2023-05-07 Thread David P. Reed via Cerowrt-devel
y it depends on what I can get from my external ISP for a reasonable price - hopefully 2 Gig or better will come here, we have many competitors (3 cable providers and various small business fixed wireless). I'm wondering about how fq_codel will handle these higher speeds on inexpensive com

[Cerowrt-devel] Interesting

2023-04-16 Thread David P. Reed via Cerowrt-devel
AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable - https://adriano.fyi/post/2023/2023-04-16-att-traffic-shaping-makes-websites-unusable/ Maybe Jason Livingood might want to comment (though as a Comcast exec, he probably won't point out an issue with ATT, another ISP) I don

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 2.5gbit for $59

2022-06-02 Thread David P. Reed
There are small, low-TDP Intel systems for up to ~$250 or so (including case) that use current generation Celerons with 4 2.5 GigE ports, and with the I/O bandwidth to easily support a full-on router at wirespeed on those ports. I'm thinking of upgrading my entry-router (which is based on Fed

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Minirouter with pi compute module 4

2022-05-19 Thread David P. Reed
Dave - I'm certain that I have non-x86 devices that can forward more than a gbit/sec in both directions. If only because I have a very nice system based on LS2160A ARM implementation that I use to forward 10 GigE traffic in both directions. Though the packets are not tiny. It's not cheap, of co

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I wish we had a good definition of mesh

2022-03-03 Thread David P. Reed
I have avoided using the term "mesh networks" for a reason. It's way too broad already. This also goes for "ad hoc networking" (which was supposedly what MANET was about, but the instigators didn't think very clearly about what the possibilities were - they focused on what "tactical warfighters

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 10gige and 2.5gige

2021-12-19 Thread David P. Reed
le for the average household > structured cabling real world use case. Not to mention nothing consumwe comes > with > SFP+ in the home space. > > > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, 10:43 am David Lang, wrote: > > another valuable featur of fiber for home use is that fiber can't c

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 10gige and 2.5gige

2021-12-16 Thread David Lang
another valuable featur of fiber for home use is that fiber can't contribute to ground loops the way that copper cables can. and for the paranoid (like me :-) ) fiber also means that any electrical disaster that happens to one end won't propgate through and fry other equipment Davi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 10gige and 2.5gige

2021-12-16 Thread David P. Reed
introduce it but most other vendors have finally picked it up after 5 years or feet dragging. On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 7:16 AM David P. Reed <[ dpr...@deepplum.com ]( mailto:dpr...@deepplum.com )> wrote: Yes, it's very cheap and getting cheaper. Since its price fell to the point I t

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 10gige and 2.5gige

2021-12-16 Thread David P. Reed
Yes, it's very cheap and getting cheaper. Since its price fell to the point I thought was cheap, my home has a 10 GigE fiber backbone, 2 switches in my main centers of computers, lots of 10 GigE NICs in servers, and even dual 10 GigE adapters in a Thunderbolt 3 external adapter for my primary

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] uplink bufferbloat and scheduling problems

2021-12-02 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: "Valdis Klētnieks" writes: On Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:09:46 -0800, David Lang said: with wifi where you can transmit multiple packets in one airtime slot, you need enough buffer to handle the entire burst. OK, I'll bite... r

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] uplink bufferbloat and scheduling problems

2021-12-01 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, David P. Reed wrote: To say it again: More memory *doesn't* improve throughput when the queue depths exceed one packet on average slight disagreement here. the buffer improves throughput up to the point where it handles one burst of packets. When packets are transm

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] uplink bufferbloat and scheduling problems

2021-12-01 Thread David Lang
with 802.11ac, the difference between uplink and downlink is that the AP can transmit to multiple users at the same time (multiple signals spacially multiplexed), but the users transmit back one at a time. David Lang On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, David P. Reed wrote: What's the difference be

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] uplink bufferbloat and scheduling problems

2021-12-01 Thread David P. Reed
What's the difference between uplink and downlink? In DOCSIS the rate asymmetry was the issue. But in WiFi, the air interface is completely symmetric (802.11ax, though, maybe not because of centrally polling). In any CSMA link (WiFi), there is no "up" or "down". There is only sender and rece

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] risc-v options?

2021-11-30 Thread David P. Reed
For what? I have recently gotten a MicroSemi RISC-V SoC board with embedded FPGA (or maybe it is better thought of as an FPGA board with multicore hard logic RISC-V host.) Runs Linux very fast. It's not set up to be a router, though - not unless I populate its PCIe slot with NICs. Standard Lin

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-09-26 Thread David P. Reed
Pretty good list, thanks for putting this together. The only thing I'd add, and I'm not able to formulate it very elegantly, is this personal insight: One that I would research, because it can be a LOT more useful in the end-to-end control loop than stuff like ECN, L4S, RED, ... Fact: Detect

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-09-20 Thread David P. Reed
ource loading code, and now the "service worker" javascript code, the idea that it is like fetching a file using FTP is just wrong. Do NANOG members understand this? I doubt it. On Monday, September 20, 2021 5:30pm, "David P. Reed" said: I use the example all the time, b

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-09-20 Thread David P. Reed
wn somehow would be an improvement, hopefully before any discards are needed. There is no "back pressure", because there is no "pressure" at all in a packet network. There are just queues and links that empty queues of packets at a certain rate. Thinking about back pres

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-09-19 Thread David Lang
it's amazing and saddning at the answers that I get, even from supposedly senior security and networking people. David Lang___ Bloat mailing list bl...@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/list

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] [Cake] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-09-03 Thread David P. Reed
. Thanks,--MM-- The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Alan Kay We must not tolerate intolerance; however our response must be carefully measured: too strong would be hypocritical and risks spiraling out of control; too weak risks being mista

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-09-02 Thread David P. Reed
good path A - > B, but a very weak path B -> A. Multipathing is another major issue that causes assymtry. > > The RF device takes these distance matrices as settings and calculates the > five branch tree values (as demonstrated in the video). There are > limitations to solut

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] Anhyone have a spare couple a hundred million ... Elon may need to start a go-fund-me page!

2021-08-10 Thread David Lang
nding out money, SpaceX is foolish not to apply for it. David Lang On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Jeremy Austin wrote: Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:33:11 -0800 From: Jeremy Austin To: dick...@alum.mit.edu Cc: Cake List , Make-Wifi-fast , Bob McMahon , starl...@lists.bufferbloat.net,

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread David Lang
I agree that we don't want to make perfect the enemy of better. A lot of the issues I'm calling out can be simulated/enhanced with different power levels. over wifi distances, I don't think time delays are going to be noticable (we're talking 10s to low 100s of feet, not

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread David Lang
djust it's receive sensitivity. David Lang On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Bob McMahon wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 20:23:06 -0700 From: Bob McMahon To: David Lang Cc: Ben Greear , Luca Muscariello , Cake List , Make-Wifi-fast , Leonard Kleinrock , starl...@lists.bufferbloat.n

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread David Lang
are corner cases. you don't need to include them in every test, but you need to have a way to configure your lab to include them before you consider any settings/algorithm ready to try in the wild. David Lang On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Bob McMahon wrote: We find four nodes, a primary BSS and an ad

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread David Lang
transmitting at much lower power levels than it cn decode the signal. David Lang On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Bob McMahon wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:16 PM David Lang wrote: If you are going to setup a test environment for wifi, you need to include the ability to make a fe cases that only happen with RF

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-02 Thread David Lang
station B cannot hear station A 3. station A can hear that station B is transmitting, but not with a strong enough signal to decode the signal (yes in theory you can work around interference, but in practice interference is still a real thing) David Lang

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-13 Thread David P. Reed
g. the traffic - On-OFF pattern) see [1]. I am not sure >> when does such information readily exist. >> >> Best >> Amr >> >> [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341617.3326146 or if behind a paywall >> https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~florin/lib/sigmet19b.

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread David Lang
I have seen some performance tests that do explicit DNS timing tests separate from other throughput/latency tests. Since DNS uses UDP (even if it then falls back to TCP in some cases), UDP performance (and especially probability of loss at congested links) is very important. David Lang On

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-12 Thread David P. Reed
  On Monday, July 12, 2021 9:46am, "Livingood, Jason" said: > I think latency/delay is becoming seen to be as important certainly, if not a > more direct proxy for end user QoE. This is all still evolving and I have to > say is a super interesting & fun thing to work on. :-)   If I could manag

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-09 Thread David P. Reed
Nice read. Luca P.S. Who has not a copy of L. Kleinrock's books? I do have and am not ready to lend them! On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:01 AM Leonard Kleinrock <[ l...@cs.ucla.edu ]( mailto:l...@cs.ucla.edu )> wrote: David, I totally appreciate your attention to when and when not analyti

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Abandoning Window-based CC Considered Harmful (was Re: Bechtolschiem)

2021-07-08 Thread David P. Reed
Keep It Simple, Stupid. That's a classic architectural principle that still applies. Unfortunately folks who only think hardware want to add features to hardware, but don't study the actual real world version of the problem. IMO, and it's based on 50 years of experience in network and operat

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-08 Thread David P. Reed
all things. [1]. There's a lot of > > fallout from that in terms of not just addressing queuing delay, but > > caching, prefetching, and learning more about what a user really needs > > (as opposed to wants) to know via intelligent agents. > > > > [0] If you wan

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-07-01 Thread David P. Reed
Well, nice that the folks doing the conference are willing to consider that quality of user experience has little to do with signalling rate at the physical layer or throughput of FTP transfers. But honestly, the fact that they call the problem "network quality" suggests that they REALLY, RE

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] access to cmsg from go?

2021-06-23 Thread David P. Reed
(They closed the issue on the golang link.) I'm not a golang user. One language too many for me. It sounds like a library issue. My suggestion would be to use the openness of open source. Generate a patchset that extends the interface properly. Don't try to "improve" what you don't like - com

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-31 Thread David Lang
) My sister is in rural Michigan and the best she can get is 2M (until starlink), with 3 kids doing remote learning and her teaching. Not great, but they survived 2020 with it. yes, more is nice, but saying that 100Mb is not enough is ignoring the huge population that isn't getting 1/10

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] wireguard almost takes a bullet

2021-03-30 Thread David Lang
ng for a specific company (avoiding even the appearance of bias) but it's morphed to present at least the appearance of special access. David Lang On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, David P. Reed wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:23:50 -0400 (EDT) From: David P. Reed To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Make-Wifi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wireguard almost takes a bullet

2021-03-30 Thread David P. Reed
just the personal opinion of someone who has been developing systems for 50+ years now. I'm kind of disappointed, but my opinion does not really matter much. David On Monday, March 29, 2021 9:52pm, "Theodore Ts'o" said: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:28:11PM -0400

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wireguard almost takes a bullet

2021-03-29 Thread David P. Reed
Dave - I've spent a fair amount of time orbiting the FreeBSD community over the past few years. It's not as sad as you might think. However, the networking portion of FreeBSD community is quite differently organized than it is in Linux. What tends to shape Linux and FreeBSD, etc. are the mon

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] smart queue management conflict

2021-03-22 Thread David P. Reed
I know I am seen as too outspoken on these things, but this paper was frank nonsense! I mean, starting from the idea that sensor and actuator devices use a small bit rate averaged over a 24 hour period means that they should be assigned a "narrowband channel" (which would be fine if real sensor

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Looking for MORE SQM Router Recommendations !

2021-03-16 Thread David Lang
This is using the compute module, that does not have any on-board ports so it's 2 Gig ports total David Lang ___ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] a start at the FCC filing

2021-03-07 Thread David P. Reed
t be much motivation to do anything else. [ https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/03/04/1722256/senators-call-on-fcc-to-quadruple-base-high-speed-internet-speeds ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/03/04/1722256/senators-call-on-fcc-to-quadruple-base-high-speed-internet-speeds ) Anybody know the

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] easic from intel

2021-03-02 Thread David P. Reed
These are ASICs, not fpgas. Presumably they are manufactured on Intel fabs using Intel processes, after designing them. The overview references RTL design specs. Now Verilog and VHDL can speciry RTL designs (but are a bit more general). Also, the I/O pins seem to be a bit more specialized th

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] a start at the FCC filing

2021-02-21 Thread David P. Reed
This is an excellent proposal. I am happy to support it somehow. I strongly recommend trying to find a way to make sure it doesn't become a proposal put forward by "progressive" potlitical partisans. (this is hard for me, because my politics are more aligned with the Left than with the self-d

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] cringley rants well on bloat

2021-02-09 Thread David P. Reed
Hmmm... good post, I guess. But aren't WiFi 6 and StarLink being built by people who have proved their genius by being billionaires? It's sad, though, to read through the comments. There's a whole 'nother world out there now. Apparently the world of commenters are largely convinced bufferbloat

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] my thx to spacex (and kerbal space program) forcheering me up all year

2021-01-01 Thread David P. Reed
It has bufferbloat? Why am I not surprised? I can share that one stack hasn't had it from the start, by design. That is one implemented for trading at 10+ GB/sec, implemented in Verilog, and now apparently in production use at one of the largest NY trading intermediaries. Why? Simply two reas

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] apparently this is an end goal of a lot of ipv6 work in the ietf

2020-07-02 Thread David P. Reed
Interop 2019 gave this an award? I have to say, it reads like a clone of the Bell System Technical Manual (or some of the LTE spec). In the tutorial it doesn't seem to say what problem it is solving. But hey, maybe the IAB loves it? They seem to be clueless as hell about internetworking as a c

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] nostalgia

2020-05-08 Thread David P. Reed
Yeah. In 1969, Bruce Daniels was a neighbor in my dorm (Random Hall, MIT) and Tim Anderson was working in the same office space at Project MAC as Carl Hewitt in around 1974, when I was, among other things like working on Multics kernel and building MACLISP, helping Carl with implementing Planne

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] real time text

2020-04-16 Thread David P. Reed
It does seem awfully complicated compared to how I would imagine the functionality could be implemented if you just did it on top of UDP. One of the costs of using UDP is that one needs to support protocol-specific end-to-end congestion control as well as protocol-specific datagram-loss handlin

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 800gige

2020-04-12 Thread David P. Reed
Sadly, out-of-order delivery tolerance was a "requirement" when we designed TCP originally. There was a big motivation: spreading traffic across a variety of roughly equivalent paths, when you look at the center of the network activity (not the stupid image called "backbone" the forces you to th

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] openwrt or "open" security cams?

2020-04-04 Thread David P. Reed
I have some servers with 512 GB of RAM, and my company sells "Software Defined Server" capability to relatively inexpensively make virtualized systems with 10 TB of RAM out of these 512 GB systems. They fit in less then a single 19" rack. [Couldn't resist :-) https://www.tidalscale.com/technolog

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] openwrt or "open" security cams?

2020-04-03 Thread David P. Reed
The ESP32-CAM device (which is under $10 quantity 1 from lots of sources, just google) is a WiFi enabled camera board with lots of functionaliy built in, including a full WiFi (2.4 GHz) and TCP/IP with TLS stack. I have been playing with a couple, as have my friends. Various folks have 3D printe

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Off-topic: What to Make of the U.K.’s New Code of Practice on Internet-of-Things Security

2020-03-30 Thread David Collier-Brown
for software updates and makes provisions for devices or components that cannot be updated through software, noting that the manufacturer can replace them—in fact, under U.K. law they must repair or replace faulty products for 6 years." oh, I so wish we had that in the US. But what qualifies as

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] AQL in openwrt head, but not 19 stable

2020-03-29 Thread David P. Reed
Pragmatically, I solve this by a mixed, manual strategy. My entry router at home isn't OpenWRT based, it only connects a WAN GigE port to a home LAN GigE port. I use multiple APs, and for now solve the "make wifi fast" problem by using one 5 GHz channel per AP, and enough APs so I can have only

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] mo bettah open source multi-party videoconferncing in an age of bloated uplinks?

2020-03-28 Thread David P. Reed
replicated on each computer, in the Squaak variant of Smalltalk. And we did it with 3 coders in a couple of years. (yes, they are sckilled people - me, David A. Smith, and the late Andreas Raab, who died way too young). In contrast, trying to bridge between EDF and regular Linux processes runn

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] mo bettah open source multi-party videoconferncing in an age of bloated uplinks?

2020-03-27 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, David P. Reed wrote: Congestion control for real-time video is quite different than for streaming. Streaming really is dealt with by a big enough (multi-second) buffering, and can in principle work great over TCP (if debloated). UDP congestion control MUST be end-to-end

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] mo bettah open source multi-party videoconferncing in an age of bloated uplinks?

2020-03-27 Thread David P. Reed
Congestion control for real-time video is quite different than for streaming. Streaming really is dealt with by a big enough (multi-second) buffering, and can in principle work great over TCP (if debloated). UDP congestion control MUST be end-to-end and done in the application layer, which is u

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] OT: Netflix vs 6in4 from HE.net

2020-03-24 Thread David P. Reed
Thanks, Colin, for the info. Sadly, I learned all about the licensing of content in the industry back about 20 years ago when I was active in the battles about Xcasting rights internationally (extending "broadcast rights" to the Web, which are rights that exist only in the EU, having to do with

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] OT: Netflix vs 6in4 from HE.net

2020-03-24 Thread David P. Reed
Sadly, my home provider, RCN, which is otherwise hugely better than Comcast and Verizon provisioning wise, still won't provide IPv6 to its customers. It's a corporate level decision. I know the regional network operations guys, which is why I know about the provisioning - they have very high-end

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] OT: Netflix vs 6in4 from HE.net

2020-03-22 Thread David P. Reed
This might turn out to be a problem for me - I have a "smart TV" that I watch Netflix on, and it appears to use IPv4. What specifically triggers Netflix to reject specific IPv6 clients? Is it the player's IPv6 address? Is all of he.net's address space blocked? I've been planning to move more of

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I got ipv6 on my cell tether this morning

2020-01-28 Thread David P. Reed
Good grief, can't we kill off NAT? IPv4.01 isn't IPv6. What does the other end think your IPv6 source address is? Can your tethered systems pass addressable endpoints to the other end, and expect them to work? Or will there be STUN6/TURN6 needed to do, say, WebRTC peering? On Tuesday, January 2

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] 5g nas protocol

2020-01-19 Thread David P. Reed
What a beautiful document. I noticed a few bugs in the protocol here and there as I skimmed it, and what appear to just be typos. I'm sure it all just works perfectly, after reading the proof of correctness that I found on github. :-( On Sunday, January 19, 2020 8:54am, "Dave Taht" said: > I

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] starlink as a mesh network

2020-01-13 Thread David P. Reed
Fun, but it is all just a dynamic geometry game. It's worth remembering that Congestion Control will be a huge problem here. It's far from obvious that current TCP congestion control (which assumes all packets in a virtual circuit traverse the same path in a very deep way indeed) will do the j

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] will starlink have bufferbloat?

2019-05-23 Thread David P. Reed
Sorry, I can't help - I never spend time or effort on Twitter, Reddit, etc. because I see no value and lots of problems in doing that. Musk probably wouldn't love my views on most of his companies, anyway. I hope he gets something right on this one. On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 6:45am, "Dave Ta

[Cerowrt-devel] Does Ubiquiti Unifi have bufferbloat and unfair/bloated WiFi scheduling?

2019-05-23 Thread David P. Reed
I have been chatting with a startup in the Multi-User Dwelling networking operations space, and they seem to really be attracted to Ubiquiti Unifi systems. I can't blame them for wanting a comprehensive and evolving system. But on the questions related to bufferbloat and making wifi both low l

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] (no subject)

2019-05-18 Thread David P. Reed
rom one end to the other). On Saturday, May 18, 2019 6:57pm, "Jonathan Morton" said: > > On 19 May, 2019, at 1:36 am, David P. Reed > wrote: > > > > Pardon, but cwnd should NEVER be larger than the number of forwarding hops > between source and destination.

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] (no subject)

2019-05-18 Thread David P. Reed
ays on my mind. > > I'd long ago hoped that DSL devices would adopt BQL, and that > > cablemodems would also, thus moving packet processing a little higher > > on the stack so more advanced algorithms like cake could take hold. > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 9:32

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Huawei banned by US gov...

2019-05-16 Thread David P. Reed
arly 60s and civilization survived, after, admittedly, getting neck > deep in the big muddy. > So anyway, here's that song, that has a fascinating history: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4 > > and to me applies to a lot of folk, currently in power. Perh

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Huawei banned by US gov...

2019-05-16 Thread David P. Reed
In my personal view, the lack of any evidence that Huawei has any more government-controlled or classified compartmented Top Secret offensive Cyberwar exploits than Cisco, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Mellanox, F5, NSO group, etc. is quite a strong indication that there's no relevant "there" there. Gi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] fq_codel is SEVEN years old today...

2019-05-14 Thread David P. Reed
Ideally, it would need to be self-configuring, though... I.e., something like the IQRouter auto-measuring of the upstream bandwidth to tune the shaper. Sure, seems like this is easy to code because there are exactly two ports to measure, they can even be labeled physically "up" and "down" to

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] fq_codel is SEVEN years old today...

2019-05-14 Thread David P. Reed
ing, negotiating a sales channel, etc. Just do what is needed to make a few thousand for the CrowdSupply market. Thoughts? -Original Message- From: "David P. Reed" Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 2:38pm To: "Valdis Klētnieks" Cc: "Rich Brown" , "cerowrt

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] fq_codel is SEVEN years old today...

2019-05-14 Thread David P. Reed
Well, of all the devices in my house (maybe 100), only the router attached to the cable modem (which is a 2x GigE Intel Linux board based on Fedora 29 server with sch_cake configured) is running fq_codel. And setting that up was a labor of love. But it works a charm for my asymmetric Gigabit ca

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Spectrum Auctions Are Killing Competition AndFailing Rural Access

2019-04-08 Thread David P. Reed
I've spent almost 25 tears trying to address this problem, technologically. First with UWB, then with technologies that scale capacity with the number of users in a band, then with the FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force, then on the FCC Technolocical Advisory Committee. Each time, most radio engine

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] plenty of huawei in the news today

2019-03-28 Thread David P. Reed
swer to themselves or their "owners". Just don't trust them. You can buy their stuff and use it because it is pretty darn functional, but don't put your life entirely in their hands, even if they have similar facial features to you. -Original Message- From: &

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] plenty of huawei in the news today

2019-03-28 Thread David P. Reed
llars to protect the US from becoming a third world country) Humans don't think. They react emotionally, and tribally. -Original Message----- From: "Dave Taht" Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 2:16pm To: "David P. Reed" Cc: "cerowrt-devel" , "bloat"

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] plenty of huawei in the news today

2019-03-28 Thread David P. Reed
The NYTimes has become a mouthpiece for those who want to see China as the new evil empire. Recent pieces by David Sanger have hyped the idea that the US has a "5G Gap" and that China (Huawei) will threaten to conquer the world with 5G superiority, so we should be vigilantly oppos

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Will transport innovation collapse the Internet?

2019-03-23 Thread David P. Reed
Dave - I tend to agree with Christian's thesis, despite the flaws in his "history". HTTP/3 does NOT specify a congestion control algorithm, and in fact seems to encourage experimentation with wacky concepts. That's a terrible approach to standardization. Roskind is not my kind of a hero.

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] friends don't let friends run factory firmware

2019-02-05 Thread David P. Reed
Well, pots and kettles - I bet there are, amongst the huge numbers of LEDE/OpenWRt packages, some very useful DDoS amplification concerns. So it's really not a strong proof of the claim that "factory firmware" is bad. My own home border router I built myself, and yet it acquires new problems wi

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-le-phb-06 is in last call

2019-02-03 Thread David P. Reed
Well, you all know that I think of diffserv as an abortion. It's based on thinking that assumes central, hierachical adminstrative agreements among what should be autonomous systems. Yeah, at layer 2 for packets that stay within an administratively uniform domain, diffserv can be useful. But e

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

2019-02-02 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, David Lang wrote: I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working well, it's one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the info to be able to work on it. It's the w

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

2019-02-01 Thread David Lang
well, it's one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the info to be able to work on it. I'm working on the c2600 as my replacement for the wndr3800. I tried the C7 but it's not really much better than the wndr38

[Cerowrt-devel] Hmmm... Worth reading re router security

2018-12-16 Thread David P. Reed
A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS - https://cyber-itl.org/2018/12/07/a-look-at-home-routers-and-linux-mips.html ___ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] dlte

2018-12-09 Thread David P. Reed
Conquer the spectrum licensing and device certification nexus. Or else your cell is will pwn yr physical world. LTE over UNII band is not even as good as CSMA at sharing and cooperation, and without coordination at installation planning time, it doesn't work well. 802.11ax has the same fragilit

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] fq_pie for linux

2018-12-06 Thread David Lang
from the Linux UDP stack in one systemcall rather than having to make one syscall per packet. In rsyslog this is a significant benefit at high packet rates. David Lang___ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.buff

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] security guidelines for home routers

2018-11-28 Thread David P. Reed
ling participants. But the latter good is lost, as the Pied Piper solved our communications concerns using the Internet, and then demanded control of our children. -Original Message- From: "Michael Richardson" Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:14am To: "David P. Ree

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] security guidelines for home routers

2018-11-26 Thread David P. Reed
> I would like it very much if my country attempted to get to something> > similar as a requirement for FCC certification or import. Stronger> yes, > would be nice, but there was> nothing horrible in here that I could see. Dave T. - You may remember from when I helped get you in contact with t

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] closing up my make-wifi-fast lab

2018-08-26 Thread David P. Reed
s.bufferbloat.net Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] closing up my make-wifi-fast lab On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 1:04 PM David P. Reed wrote: > > WiFi is a bit harder than IP. But you know that. > > I truly believe that we need to fix the phy/waveform/modulation space to > really scale up

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] closing up my make-wifi-fast lab

2018-08-25 Thread David P. Reed
WiFi is a bit harder than IP. But you know that. I truly believe that we need to fix the phy/waveform/modulation space to really scale up open wireless networking capability. LBT is the basic bug in WiFi, and it is at that layer, melow the MAC. I have tried for 20 years now to find a way to be

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Spectre and EBPF JIT

2018-01-05 Thread David Lang
He does a good job of explaining these high provile vulnerabilities. On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Jonathan Morton wrote: On 5 Jan, 2018, at 5:35 pm, dpr...@deepplum.com wrote: Of course the "press" wants everyone to be superafraid, so if they can say "KVM is affected" that causes the mob to start runn

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Random thought - reactions?

2017-12-15 Thread David Lang
There are two different issues here. 1. the last mile ISP plays games with the traffic for their own benefit (and thir competitors detriment) 2. the government wants to spy on everybody It's possible for the VPN tunnel providers to solve problem #1 without solving problem #2 k

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] dnsmasq CVEs

2017-10-04 Thread David P Reed
I share your concern for updates, and support for same. However, there are architectural solutions we should have pursued a long time ago, which would bound the damage of such vulnerabilities. Make the system far more robust. There's no reason for dnsmasq to run with privileges. Not should pack

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] solar wifi ap designs?

2017-06-05 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, Richard Smith wrote: My WNDR 3700v2 power supply is rated at 12V 2.5A which is a peak of 30W. don't forget that this includes providing power out to the USB port as well. yet another reason to measure things :-) David L

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Turris Omnia

2016-11-06 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, James Cloos wrote: "DL" == David Lang writes: DL> I wonder if you are running into the problem with encryption and DL> packet re-ordering that was solved a couple months ago, try disabling DL> fq_codel or test without encryption to see if that's

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Turris Omnia

2016-11-06 Thread David Lang
On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, James Cloos wrote: "DL" == David Lang writes: DL> My first question is if you have checked that you don't have other DL> 5GHz users on the same channel in your area. Yes, The Wifi Analyzer droid app (run on my fairly high end phablet) shows onl

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Turris Omnia

2016-11-06 Thread David Lang
full power/frequency range for your location. upload faster than download is unusual, but interference can cause strange issues. Get the RF right before you worry about other things. David Lang ___ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferblo

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] conntrack and ipv6

2016-07-02 Thread David Lang
nd needs to be triggered by an outgoing message. It's compiled into the kernel and on by default (I fight to turn it off for Scale where I don't need to maintain state in the APs as they don't do any firewalling) David Lang Similarly I'm unfamiliar with the state of ipv6 upnp

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2016-06-27 Thread David Lang
t does is impressive, given the amount things have changed since it was designed, and the fact that backwards compatibility has been maintained. David Lang Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:09 PM, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote: packet size is smallest udp payload per a

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2016-06-27 Thread David Lang
t on the 'coordination' channel. I'm also not sure what good it would do, once a transmission has been stepped on, it will need to be re-sent (I guess you would be able to re-send immediatly) David Lang Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:09 PM, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 27 J

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demandfor better wifi

2016-06-27 Thread David Lang
uld be separated from the the BSSID's "carrier/energy state" signal? how do you solve the interference problem on this other band/radio? When you have other APs in the area operating, you will have the same problem there. David Lang Bob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:40 PM, David

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