[Bloat] Announcing Flent (formerly netperf-wrapper) v0.10.0

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Sun May 24 13:14:38 EDT 2015


um, er ah, can a modern web server or web browser decompress bzip?
gzip support is common, and it was always my hope to have a web
browser based parser for the output.

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> also, nanog would be good to ping but this announcement is not generic
> enough for it. I can do nanog.
>
> Also you have hopefully collected a lot of addresses from your
> travels, like to caida, that are not on the bloat list.
>
> Best to do an announcement of that sort after you have a mailing list.
> I hope to migrate lists.bufferbloat.net to
> something new, leveraging your newfound expertise in that area. ;)
>
> Does stuff install to the mac using pip?
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> - A couple of new tests has been added: `rrul_50_down`, `rrul_100_up`
>>
>> These tests also include one saturating stream in the opposite direction,
>> and do not graph many flows very well, as yet.
>>
>> https://github.com/tohojo/flent/issues/15
>>
>> The results are "interesting". I have been using these to completely overwhelm
>> the sqm inbound shaper (pie,cake,fq_codel,and a policer all fail to manage
>> the concatinated 2sec comcast queue. Sigh.)
>>
>> Also since we have tons more "flent" servers coming available, testing
>> more flows at more RTTs becomes feasible.
>>
>> https://github.com/tohojo/flent/issues/36
>>
>>>   and `dslreports_8dn`.
>>
>> This last test is not really baked yet. My intent was to fully emulate
>> the dslreports tests (notably using an http pinger in addition to udp), and use
>> things like the new in-series runner to garner up and down results collected
>> sequentially, and calculate stuff including the "grade".  But the form of those
>> tests had not settled down upstream before this release....
>>
>> Please do not expect binary compatability on the results of these
>> three tests going forward.
>>
>> And: Ideas and Patches always wanted - especially now that the next
>> release window is open!
>>
>> https://github.com/tohojo/flent/issues
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Täht
>> Open Networking needs **Open Source Hardware**
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67
>
>
>
> --
> Dave Täht
> Open Networking needs **Open Source Hardware**
>
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67



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