Hi techicist,

> On Aug 26, 2016, at 13:15 , [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Is flowblind likely to give better performance?

        That depends on your definition of better, I guess. Typically flow-fair 
queuing seems to be what most people prefer (unless an application either does 
not respond to AQM signals or open an excessive amount of individual flows 
flow-fair queueing effectively treats most traffic sources equal, pretty much 
what people seem to want, add to this a bit of classification to exempt e.g. 
VOIP traffic from only getting its flow-fair share of the bandwidth and the 
whole thing also works reasonably well with slow links). People suffering from 
unruly applications (like mis-configured? bit-torrent clients or recently 
windows update) often ask for per-application fairness, but that is not 
something a router will ever be able to deliver in my opinion; the closest we 
get to this would be fairnes by internal or external end-IP addresses. Luckily 
cake offers just these modes “dsthost”, “srchost” and even better offers a 
combination modes that will on a first level attempt per host-IP fairness and 
within each host IP also per-flow fairness (“dual-srchost” and “dual-dsthost”, 
and even “triple-isolate” which systematically might be better called 
“dual-srchost-dsthost” since it offers fist level fairness based on an 
under-documented mix of src and dst addresses, but I digress). Please note that 
on a typical homerouter, due to NAT, all the IP addressed based fairness modes 
will not work for IPv4 on the wan interface, IPv6 traffic should be fine, but 
IPv4 basically degrades into a computationally more intensive version of 
flow-fairness (as after NAT cake only sees the routers external IP for all 
internal hosts). This might have been more than you wanted to know…

Best Regards
        Sebastian

> 
> netperfrunner looks very useful. Thank you for that.
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