[Cake] de-natting & host fairness

[Dave Taht]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> A while back I started on a quest to make cake 'nat' aware as the lack of
> host fairness in a typical home router environment was the only thing that
> prevented cake from being the ultimate qdisc in my opinion.  This involves
> dealing with conntrack which on egress is easy (the kernel fills in a data
> structure for us), ingress is less clear.  I hacked something together but
> wasn't really happy with it.
>
> Another github user 'tegularius' presented some beautifully crafted code
> that did the lookups in a much neater way.  Originally it too had an
> 'ingress' lookup problem.  This was worked on and I hacked some conditional
> 'denat' options into cake & tc.
>
> For your 'delight' a denat cake
> https://github.com/kdarbyshirebryant/sch_cake/tree/natoptions along with a
> matching tc https://github.com/kdarbyshirebryant/tc-adv/tree/denat
>
> Typically I use 'dual-srchost srcnat' options on the egress interface, with
> 'dual-dsthost dstnat' in the ingress ifb interface.  In *brief* testing,
> bandwidth is shared fairly between hosts, and fairly by flow within each
> host.  And it's not crashed yet.

Groovy! (good morning).

Is there a way to autodetect if nat is on or not?

If you are bored and want to see what happens with tcp bbr, I just set
up a server at:

173 dot 230 dot 156 dot 252

and I'll probably put one up in the uk as well.


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Dave Täht
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