Pete Heist <p...@heistp.net> writes: > I happen to also be working on a bridge setup, but it’s different. For > one, I used fq_codel on a transparent bridge for a couple years in > production and it worked well, so I trust it also would for cake. > > But now, my neighbor will access the Internet through my CPE device, > but they must have a separate IP obtained through DHCP (i.e. a > separate MAC address as well), and I want to use cake to manage the > queue for both of us. I could do this with two routers and a > transparent bridge, but I want to see if I can make it work with as > few devices as possible, preferably just one EdgeRouter-X. I had two > failures thus far: > > Fail #1: Do routing for the neighbors on their NS5AC Loco, and use the > ER-X’s internal switch to bridge the neighbor’s and my WAN interfaces > to the CPE. Doing cake on switch0 results in my WAN traffic going > through the qdisc, but unsurprisingly, the neighbor’s traffic passes > through the switch without going through the qdisc layer. > > Fail #2: Use the ER-X’s pseudo-ethernet functionality to add a second > virtual Ethernet interface to the ER-X’s WAN interface. I could use > IFB if I got two WAN interfaces working on the same box. This looks > promising and I can pick up two DHCP addresses on one physical > interface, but the ER-X doesn’t handle the routing situation where two > interfaces have the same default router IP. (Using policy-based > routing, what does it do when next-hop is the same for two different > LAN subnets?) > > There will be a solution here, I just haven’t found it yet. I’m now > thinking of a setup with a smart switch / VLANs and a transparent > bridge through two physical interfaces of the ER-X (which only has 5 > ports total), but I’ll figure it out… :)
DHCP relay and normal routing? Or bridging with a kernel software bridge rather than the hardware switch? -Toke _______________________________________________ Cake mailing list Cake@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cake