[Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

[Adrian Kennard]

On 05/06/2015 18:23, Dave Taht wrote:
>> Adrian Kennard the owner writes code for their ISP grade routers etc (Firebricks).  Very clever chap.  And yes very early adopters and promoters of IPv6.  No idea what qdiscs etc they've experimented with.  I'll try to ask.  Would be interesting to get fq_codel or even cake into the ISP side of things!
> Yes, I met him at one of the uknofs. Very clever chap.
> 
> So far as I knew the firebrick (which has a GREAT reputation, btw),
> was bsd based.

The FireBrick tries to shift packets as they arrive and not run any
queues. It is not generally an endpoint for IP traffic and so buffer
bloat should not be an issue. The shapers all work on predicted queue at
specified speed and do not actually delay traffic (so are policers
rather than shapers) but get used for bonding multiple links.