Hi Toke,


> On Apr 24, 2018, at 10:47, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>>> On Apr 24, 2018, at 01:01, Pete Heist <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Last week we submitted an academic paper describing Cake. A pre-print is
>>>> now available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07617
>>>> 
>>>> Comments welcome, of course :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Nice work overall… :) Below is some feedback on content, and attached is a 
>>> marked up PDF with some feedback on grammar and wording. Click the vanilla 
>>> squares to show the notes.
>>> 
>>> Content:
>>> 
>>> - I wish there were some reference on how widespread of a problem 
>>> bufferbloat actually is on the current Internet. That would bolster the 
>>> initial assertion in the introduction.
>>> 
>>> - Thank you, I finally “get" triple-isolate. :) But I find it easier
>>> to understand the behavior of dual-srchost and dual-dsthost, and I
>>> think most would prefer its behavior, despite the fact that it needs
>>> to be configured manually. Just a thought, knowing that cake
>>> currently targets home gateways, and that there are now the egress
>>> and ingress keywords, could host isolation default to dual-srchost
>>> for egress mode and dual-dsthost for ingress mode? Or since using the
>>> keywords would be fragile, is there a better way to know the proper
>>> sense for dual-srchost and dual-dsthost?
>> 
>>      The challenge is to find a heuristic that covers all reasonable
>>      use cases and does no harm in unexpected cases. I could envision
>>      setting up a cake instance on the upstream end of say a
>>      microwave link, there "ingress" seems like the appropriate
>>      keyword (as the goal would be to keep the link non-congested),
>>      but for customer fairness "dual-srchost" would be the
>>      appropriate keyword (or just srchost if all the ISP cares for is
>>      inter-customer fairness). Sure this will not work with IPv6 (for
>>      that we would either need to llok at the MACs or IMHO preferably
>>      the IPv6 prefix (or the partially masked IPv6 IP-address, I
>>      believe this to be better than MAC adresses as the ISP can
>>      easily control the prefix, but I digress)).
> 
> I don't think we can make assumptions on ISP deployments.

Sure we do not really need to: 
https://forum.lede-project.org/t/transparent-cake-box/2161/4?u=moeller0 and 
https://forum.lede-project.org/t/lede-as-a-dedicated-qos-bufferbloat-appliance/1861/14?u=moeller0
so it looks like one person already use cake in an small ISP context. Now 1 is 
not a very convincing number, but certainly larger than zero... 


> The shaper may
> or may not be at the point of NAT, and per-customer prefix size can
> vary. To properly support the ISP per-customer fairness use case, we'd
> probably need to support arbitrary filtering (like what FQ-CoDel
> supports with 'tc filter'). And I think, if we wanted to support the ISP
> case, that a per-customer *shaper* is more useful...

Yes, I assume though that these would need to run on the boxes ISPs use to 
terminate the customer lines; but cake might still make sense for fair sharing 
of bottlenecks.

Best Regards
        Sebastian

> 
> -Toke

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