On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone please tell me which Open WRT package set is Cero WRT based on?
> Is it
> a) openwrt trunk -
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/
> b) openwrt backfire -
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/ar71xx/packages/
> c) other?

Other. It is based on trunk + a few extra packages and kernel options.

I use git from nbd's repository rather than svn.

I understand you mean: git://nbd.name/openwrt.git and git://nbd.name/packages.git ?

I believe in a previous message the correct procedure for pulling was
documented.

You mean this: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/Building_CeroWrt_on_your_own_machine ?

The instructions seem to mismatch repository names, e.g. there's no cerofiles on your github but cerofiles-3.3, etc.
I have a redmine account and I could correct the wiki but should the wiki be updated to the github, or repos renamed @ github?
Keeping strategic naming might be important.

This has to get cleaned up and documented better but I only got back
to working builds on monday...

If I can get myself able to use the right repositories to build packages for myself I could contribute to correct the documentation.

> Also, if I want to add a package, say minidlna or ntfs-3g drivers from
> openwrt, which packages should I use?

Presently I am pulling directly from the openwrt packages repo. I will
freeze fairly soon and try to maintain a stable packages repo on
github.

I am too. I noticed some openwrt packages do not work out of the box. miniupnpd doesn't start (don't know why yet),
minidlna warns about interface names changed. So there are some tweaks here and there required to make it not trip on cero-specific changes. I was wondering what would be the process to make available the packages that are stock openwrt but not in cero RC repository. I mean changing a config file to correct inteface names is trivial and isn't running a DLNA server on a debloated router a cool thing? I think it is!

I note that I found the performance of ntfs-3g to be dismal and you
are far better off to reformat said drive for ext4, if you intend to
use openwrt/cerowrt as a nas. (far better off as in , 50x better off)

I found that too but I only have 1TB drive full of data and can't convert without getting another one :)

Please feel free to publish your preliminary results here or on the
wiki. It is still very early days, however, and the default AQM for
bandwidth shaping remains in flux and is off by defautl (and buggy
when on)

Well, it's just netalyzr at the moment. stock wndr3800 gave me latency measurement of over 1500 ms and both upload/download was in red. I decided to finally checkout cerowrt when I couldn't play youtube smoothely for my kid when switching to full screen. Now I am in the green with around 150ms. But I would have to retest to get actual values as these are from memory.

I have a 6Mb link that's about to upgraded to 50Mb. I wonder what effect will that have on my latencies and buffer bloat here.

The rest of your reply needs more attention of my brain power to fully grasp as I'm fresh to fiddling with cerowrt :)
Where's the debloat script?

I would LOVE some netanlyzer results from that from people with adsl,
cable modems, and other forms of uplinks, with debloat as it stands
on, and off. (and as I noted, sfqred is ON on the internal interfaces
too)

Will do, I'm on cable.

Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak