[Bloat] The challenge

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 19:37 -0700, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 9 May, 2012, at 4:04 am, Dave Taht wrote:
> >
> 
> > So overall we have an AQM that provides a low-latency signal of appropriate magnitude to TCPs when the link is genuinely congested, and gets out of the way when it isn't.  Combined with a fair queueing discipline (eg. SFQ or QFQ), I think this will turn out to be an excellent default setting for all sorts of equipment.  What would it take to get this into a DSL modem (at either end of the link)?
> 
> David Woodhouse tossed a copy of the paper on his machine before
> getting on a plane. He's been working on a ADSL device for quite some
> time. I don't know if he and his box are together, or separated.

Separated by about five thousand miles right now; I'll be home on
Monday; awake by Tuesday. OpenWrt supports a bunch of ADSL modems,
including the shiny dual-port Traverse Geos that I'm using at home. It's
running OpenWrt trunk, and it's simple enough for me to update the
kernel. The two lines are bonded using teql, but if you put your qdisc
on the teql0 interface I don't think that should make any difference at
all. I can give accounts on a machine at my end of the line, and you can
do what you like with it as long as you don't use too much *downstream*
bandwidth between the hours of 8am and 6pm (UK time) on weekdays.

As for the *ISP* end of the link, we could talk to the ISP about that.
Their LNS isn't running Linux though; it's their own code.

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dwmw2
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