On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 2:39 AM T D <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I have recently gotten an ubiquiti edgerouter x and flashed openWRT on it. It 
> is using the cake algorithm with the piece_of_cake script.
>
> Will my two Unifi AC AP Lites w/ stock firmware connected to the edgerouter 
> with openWRT reap the benefits of the FQ-MAC mentioned in your paper?

The stock firmware for at least the nanostation m5 added "Airtime
fairness" as a checkbox item a year or so back which was not the full
fq_codel thing (but openwrt on the m5 is the full fq_codel for wifi
thing and works GREAT). I don't know to what extent that has made it
into their other products like the uap-lite. The fq_codel for wifi
code in openwrt worked on the ath9k portion of the uap-lite, but there
were some issues regarding the firmware for the ath10k. At one point
it was enabled, another disabled, another re-enabled. It worked better
on the ath10k-ct firmware in all cases, which was a removal of the
ath10k stock firmware in favor of that (ct is candalatech's firmware
which among other things supports ad-hoc mode for the ath10k)

>
> How does one get it to work if the one has a router that doesn't have an 
> ath9k/ath10k chip, but has access point with the ath9k ath10k chips hooked up 
> to it?

Well, cake works where it is. If your wifi is running slower than your
uplink the bottleneck shifts to there.

My usual answer is to setup a test (a flent server on the wired link,
a test over wifi) and see what happens.

> If I read your paper correctly, the access points have to run on the version 
> 4.6 kernel or newer. If that's true then I assume I must flash openWRT on the 
> unifi APs. After that, does FQ-MAC just work automatically or are their 
> settings I must do?

Automatically.
>
> Would appreciate your response Dave!

I try to push stuff to the mailing list where possible.
>
> From,
> Tai



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