On 8 Aug 2013, at 10:41, Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Fred,
> 
> 
> On Aug 8, 2013, at 01:21 , Fred Stratton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 7 Aug 2013, at 14:38, Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Fred,
>>> 
>>> this got a bit longish so I took the liberty to reduce the quoted text a bit
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 5, 2013, at 12:47 , Fred Stratton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [snipp]
>>> 
>>>>>>> You are using 2 routers in series. I have disabled all routing 
>>>>>>> functions on the 2wire. It is transparent to the network.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Which is exactly the situation I faced with the cable modem before; my 
>>>>>> cerowrt-router was provisioned with an IP address through the bridged 
>>>>>> cable-modem via DHCP, but I still could access the modem's 192.168.100.1 
>>>>>> with out any configuration required. I know there is some openwork 
>>>>>> information (http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/access.modem.through.nat) 
>>>>>> that makes it look like one needs to do more involved fiddling with the 
>>>>>> firewall, but that turned out not to be required with cerowrt. I do not 
>>>>>> know how that works if one runs a pppoe client on cerowrt though and I 
>>>>>> left cerowrt's ip address assignment in place. (My hunch is that since 
>>>>>> cerowrt leaves the typical 192.168.N.N ranges alone the whole issue gets 
>>>>>> reduced to a simple routing issue… and since Dave takes care that cero 
>>>>>> works well as secondary (test) router in a typical home situation, I 
>>>>>> guess routing 192.168.N.N is well with in cerowrt's scope)
>>>>>>  But, I guess you tried that already and it still does not work. Would 
>>>>>> be interesting to learn why…
>>>>> 
>>>>> The difference is that you have the ISP gateway as a primary device 
>>>>> issuing a DHCP address to the cerowrt secondary router. The 2 devices are 
>>>>> then obviously on the same ipv4 subnet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I use the 2700 transparently. DHCP is turned off. If I turn it on, I have 
>>>>> to use the device in DMZ mode with its firewall on, which I do not want 
>>>>> to do.
>>> 
>>>     Sorry, to keep harping on this, but this is pretty close to what I did 
>>> with the cable modem. As I said I had it working with a similar setup as 
>>> you have, cerowrt was assigned a public IP (75.142.58.156) address by the 
>>> cable-ISPs dhcp server while the modems configuration interface was running 
>>> on the "private" 192.168.100.1. So the modem and cero were decidedly not on 
>>> the same IP subnet, but still I could connect to it without needing to 
>>> change anything. Initially, before I found out that it works out of the box 
>>> I had defined an alias IP address on the wan interface of (WAN2CABLEMODEM 
>>> ipv4-address:    192.168.100.2;  ipv4-netmask:   255.255.255.0). But it 
>>> turned out that this was not necessary as of cerowrt 3.3.8-17 I did not 
>>> need to do this any more, accessing the cable modem just worked by 
>>> directing a browser to 192.168.100.1.
>>> 
>>>     So, have you tried to access the modem recently by simply directing a 
>>> browser to its address? And have you tried the same after just configuring 
>>> an alias as hinted above? If so what was the result?
>>> 
>> 
>> I configured an alias using uci at your prompting. It works. I can now 
>> access the 2700.
> 
>       Excellent, that is solved then. On to the next issues...
> 
>> 
>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Initially, I used the 2700 with the tomatoUSB router attached to that, 
>>>>> and then a router running openWRT. This setup allowed access to the 2700, 
>>>>> through a masquerade in tomatoUSB. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Although ipv6 addresses were propagated throughout the network by Barrier 
>>>>> Breaker, ipv6 did not work, probably because of the way radvd works in 
>>>>> tomato.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have never used the cerowrt as a secondary device because of this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> [snipp]
>>> 
>>>>> I do not want to use cable, which is expensive. The DOCSIS box - a custom 
>>>>> Netgear device - has a poor reputation.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do not want to use fibre, again, because when it comes here, it will be 
>>>>> supplied by BT/, and is traffic shaped and capped. The BT web site has 35 
>>>>> pages of price increases for this year.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will continue with ADSL2+
>>> 
>>>     I fully agree that getting ADSL(2+) links debated and offering low 
>>> latency internet access is worthwhile as a considerable number of people 
>>> simply have no other choice available. And this is why your case is so 
>>> interesting! If you can improve the "interactivity" in your home and 
>>> document the required steps somewhere others will have an easier time.
>>> 
>>> Yes. Hopefully others using ADSL will also participate.
> 
> 
>       Okay, let's assume for a minute that the ATM link layer adaptation 
> mechanism might be busted. Since each package (and its overhead) always 
> consume an integer number of ATM cells and no ATM cells are shared between 
> packets, the worst case ATM overhead would be close to 50% (a small packet 
> with 48 + 1 byte length will take 2 full 48 byte ATM cells, just looking at 
> the payload here). For bigger packets the ATM quantization overhead will be a 
> smaller percentage. So if you shape down to 50% of link rates (and do your 
> testing not only with very small packets) this should make the shaping robust 
> even with a busted ATM link layer adaptation mechanism. Assuming sane numbers 
> of "channels" reserved for FEC this should also nicely cover the useable link 
> rate reduction caused by these channels.
>       So I would like to ask you to try shaping up and down rates to 50% of 
> the link rates and then see how the link behaves in face of concurrent 
> streaming and interactive traffic. In case you go that route, please let us 
> know whether this improves anything or not. Oh, and I guess it would be a 
> good idea to do these tests not over any tunnel by by "plain" IP4 or IP6, 
> depending on your actual connection to your ISP.
>       One other thing to try would be to see whether latencies change over 
> the course of the day or not (if the uplink bottleneck should be the uplink 
> of the DSLAM itself shaping on your end will not help much)

The ISP provides ipv4 only. ipv6 is from HE and therefore tunnelled, but 
sometimes faster on the available speediest.  I shall try your suggestions. 
> 
> 
> Best
>       Sebastian
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> best
>>>     Sebastian
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>  Sebastian
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> best regards
>>>>>>>>        Sebastian
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 3 Aug 2013, at 10:38, Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Fred,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Aug 1, 2013, at 00:35 , Fred Stratton <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On 31 Jul 2013, at 23:14, Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Fred,
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks a lot.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2013, at 23:37 , Fred Stratton <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tc -s -d class show dev ge00
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class htb 1:10 parent 1:1 leaf 110: prio 0 quantum 1500 rate 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 700000bit ceil 700000bit burst 1599b/1 mpu 0b overhead 0b cburst 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1599b/1 mpu 0b overhead 0b level 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sent 15809014 bytes 115190 pkt (dropped 4733, overlimits 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> requeues 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> rate 3616bit 3pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lended: 115190 borrowed: 0 giants: 0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tokens: 263560 ctokens: 263560
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class htb 1:1 root rate 700000bit ceil 700000bit burst 1599b/1 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> mpu 0b overhead 0b cburst 1599b/1 mpu 0b overhead 0b level 7 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sent 15809014 bytes 115190 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> rate 3616bit 3pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lended: 0 borrowed: 0 giants: 0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tokens: 263560 ctokens: 263560
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class fq_codel 110:1b8 parent 110: 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deficit 84 count 0 lastcount 0 delay 10us
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tc -s -d class show dev ifb0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class htb 1:10 parent 1:1 leaf 110: prio 0 quantum 1500 rate 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7000Kbit ceil 7000Kbit burst 1598b/1 mpu 0b overhead 0b cburst 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1598b/1 mpu 0b overhead 0b level 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sent 192992612 bytes 168503 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> rate 17096bit 4pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lended: 168503 borrowed: 0 giants: 0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tokens: 27454 ctokens: 27454
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class htb 1:1 root rate 7000Kbit ceil 7000Kbit burst 1598b/1 mpu 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0b overhead 0b cburst 1598b/1 mpu 0b overhead 0b level 7 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sent 192992612 bytes 168503 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> rate 17096bit 4pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lended: 0 borrowed: 0 giants: 0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tokens: 27454 ctokens: 27454
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class fq_codel 110:cc parent 110: 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (dropped 10, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deficit -198 count 1 lastcount 1 ldelay 2.3ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class fq_codel 110:1d9 parent 110: 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deficit 226 count 0 lastcount 0 ldelay 2us
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class fq_codel 110:1de parent 110: 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deficit 238 count 0 lastcount 0 ldelay 10us
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class fq_codel 110:345 parent 110: 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deficit 226 count 0 lastcount 0 delay 9us
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I changed the hard coded values in /usr/lib/aqm/functions.sh to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> arbitrary values, rebooted and obtained the same results. Both 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> reflect the 7000kbit/s down and 700kbit/s up I entered in the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> window.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>    What is the line rate as read out from the del modem or 
>>>>>>>>>>>> specified in your contract?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Speedtest.net shows the rate as circa 8.7 megabits/s down, 1 
>>>>>>>>>>> megabit/s up. Line has radio frequency interference from 
>>>>>>>>>>> unidentified sources..
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>      So it looks like specify a generous reserve for the shaper. Can 
>>>>>>>>>> you log into your modem and get the current line rates? The rf 
>>>>>>>>>> interference, is it constant (if you can get nice SNR per sub 
>>>>>>>>>> carrier or even ust bit loading per frequency plots) that is does it 
>>>>>>>>>> only affect the same frequencies or does it change? (I ask, because 
>>>>>>>>>> temporary interference might reduce the effective line rate, 
>>>>>>>>>> potentially moving the buffer back into the del modem)
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Target snr upped to 12 deciBel.  Line can sustain 10 megabits/s 
>>>>>>>>>>> with repeated loss of sync.at lower snr.  Contract is for 'up to 
>>>>>>>>>>> 20megabits/s'.  
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>      So  ADSL2+ as you even mentioned it before.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 850 metres from exchange. Line length circa 1.2km.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I ticked the adsl box. Altering the value in functions.sh and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> unticking the box, with reboot, produced the same outcome.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>    This nicely shows I screwed up my testing (and or forgot to 
>>>>>>>>>>>> reboot between changes). Or I did try too high a data rate 
>>>>>>>>>>>> (initially 97% of the raw link rate)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> traceroute google.com
>>>>>>>>>>>>> traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 173.194.41.128
>>>>>>>>>>>>> traceroute to google.com (173.194.41.128), 64 hops max, 52 byte 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> packets
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1  172.30.42.1 (172.30.42.1)  0.631 ms  0.323 ms  0.249 ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2  * * *
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3  10.1.3.234 (10.1.3.234)  22.596 ms  21.241 ms  22.392 ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4  * 10.1.3.214 (10.1.3.214)  27.018 ms  26.703 ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 5  10.1.4.249 (10.1.4.249)  29.682 ms  28.923 ms  27.479 ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 6  * * *
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7  * 209.85.252.186 (209.85.252.186)  30.379 ms *
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 8  72.14.238.55 (72.14.238.55)  25.745 ms  25.345 ms  25.594 ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 9  lhr08s03-in-f0.1e100.net (173.194.41.128)  27.566 ms  27.390 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ms  27.663 ms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> mtr shows packet losses at hops 2-5 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 10.1.3.* are Internet Watch Foundation.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>    This looks pretty reasonable for an adsl link (could be way 
>>>>>>>>>>>> worse with higher interleaving)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Netalyzr was used. I appreciate it is an imperfect metric.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> OK.  Like the ping train idea. Cannot get netperf 2.6.0 to build on 
>>>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu 12.04
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>      So I typically run a 1000 count ping against the nearest host 
>>>>>>>>>> that is on the other side of the DSL link that also gives consistent 
>>>>>>>>>> ping RTTs without load. Then I start my test loads like saturating 
>>>>>>>>>> the upload with a long runnig TCP transfer and opening 99 media 
>>>>>>>>>> heavy tabs in a browser (I really should try the chrome benchmark 
>>>>>>>>>> that Dave is using). And the I simply look through the ping 
>>>>>>>>>> statistic results, typically I look at the maximum, and at the 
>>>>>>>>>> standard deviation to get a handle on how tight the shaper held 
>>>>>>>>>> latency under control. (If I should get netperf-wrapper to work 
>>>>>>>>>> under Macosx I will try to use that for testing, but it does not 
>>>>>>>>>> even install, and if I get past that hurdle I will have to adjust 
>>>>>>>>>> for the differences between Gnu ping and BSD ping).
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>      Best Regards
>>>>>>>>>>              Sebastian
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>    Well, I ran into this issue before. In short netalyzr's worst 
>>>>>>>>>>>> case delay numbers do not seem to reflect how an fq_codelled 
>>>>>>>>>>>> connection feels.  
>>>>>>>>>>>> Netalyzr uses an unresponsive UDP probe to force the bottleneck 
>>>>>>>>>>>> router's buffers to fill up;  with unresponsiveness being a 
>>>>>>>>>>>> property no sane flow over the intent should exhibit. 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Codel/fq_codel is tailored for responsive flows and will only 
>>>>>>>>>>>> gradually increase its drop frequency so responsive TCP flows will 
>>>>>>>>>>>> be controlled gently and keep link utilization high. Given enough 
>>>>>>>>>>>> time codel will also rein in an unresponsive flows. But netalyzr's 
>>>>>>>>>>>> probe duration is too short for that to be happening during 
>>>>>>>>>>>> netalyzr's runtime.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Fq_codel in my experience does a decent job at keeping 
>>>>>>>>>>>> interactivity high even with competing traffic like netalyzr (so 
>>>>>>>>>>>> turn a ping train against say 10.1.3.234 while netalyzr runs or 
>>>>>>>>>>>> try netperf-wrapper  in addition). 
>>>>>>>>>>>> So netalyzr really probes the worst case buffer depth against 
>>>>>>>>>>>> basically a "denial of service" type of load; I am not fully sure 
>>>>>>>>>>>> what the expectancy on the disc here should be.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> best
>>>>>>>>>>>>    Sebastian
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 31 Jul 2013, at 21:38, Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tc -s -d class show dev ge00
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
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