Re: [Cake] dscp & tunneling

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:

> the same test shows all those flows going in the best effort tin and
> nothing being split out according to dscp.  Things are split out
> correctly with ipv4.  Assuming that my installation of flent is doing
> the right thing (putting dscp on its outbound ipv6 packets) and knowing
> that both flent & cake handle the ipv4 version of the test correctly and
> that by the time 'cake' sees my tunnel it's all ipv4 outer packets
> anyway, this suggests dscp from inner ipv6 to outer ipv4 isn't taking
> place, at least for 6in4 'sit' tunnels :-(

Wireshark is your friend here.

It would not surprise me if dscp inherit had broken again, or, it was
borked on decapsulation. Not a widely tested feature, that.

I remember making it work several years ago, remember sort of seeing
the patches go upstream somewhere.... it was a long time ago.
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>> VPNs like ipsec or openvpn are not handled this way, not enough data.
>> Arguably you could pull apart some forms of tinc (stalled out research
>> project) in a really sane way...
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