Re: [Cake] More overhead keywords

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

anyone up for doing the man page or imrpoving this further?

http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Cake

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
>> I've gone for the technical labels for three reasons. First, it reflects
>> what's actually happening, which generally reduces confusion in the long
>> run. Second, you might underestimate the number of ADSL ISPs worldwide, as
>> well as the difficulty of keeping such a database up to date. Third, every
>> DSL modem and ISP I know of has made it reasonably easy to discover at
>> least the base encapsulations - autodetection of vcmux vs llc isn't
>> absolutely reliable, for example. They might be less forthcoming about
>> vlan
>> and FCS, but one can make intelligent guesses here, based on whether it's
>> a
>> converged services ISP.
>
>
> offer both the official labels and some easy-to-understand boxes to use
>
> for example
>
> underlying packet size (ATM = 48, Ethernet = 1500)
>
> protocol overhead (various examples)
>
> David Lang
>
>
>> Ideally, we could do with a tool (at dslreports?) which makes detecting
>> the
>> actual overhead easier. This would be doable using small packets to
>> magnify
>> the differences.
>>
>> And if the user really can't work it out, they can always throw up their
>> hands and specify "conservative".
>>
>> - Jonathan Morton
>
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