[Cake] How to test Cake on TP-Link WDR3600

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Jonathan,

On Jul 26, 2015, at 23:20 , Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Three reasons why a stackable peeler doesn't work so well:
> 
> - There is some overhead from stacking, due to passing packets up and down the stack. It also incurs at least one packet of unmanaged buffer.
> 
> - A separate qdisc would not have the information about link bandwidth and active flow count that cake maintains, and uses to influence the peeler.
> 
> - Peeling to individual IP packets is strictly necessary when encapsulation overhead needs to be calculated.

	Is not strictly right? I thought actual peeling or decomposition into maximally MTU-sized packets is not required, only doing the calculation how many packets would be the result and the size of each?

Best Regards
	Sebastian


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