[Cake] Recomended HW to run cake and fq_codel?

[Nils Andreas Svee]

Kinda surprising that the plain ER-X isn't readily available. I know
Dustin used to have them, but they're out of stock. Both of them will do
just fine, but I'd probably pick the ER-X-SFP for the beefier CPU, if
only to get some extra headroom. Mind the ER-X only have 256 MB RAM and
256 MB flash, if that matters to you.

DSL tends to suck pretty (read: very) bad without proper shaping, I
know. On that note, are you planning to run an AQM on both ends of the
bottleneck, or shape ingress traffic via a IFB device? CAKE helps a lot
when running on ingress, but it can't come close to running on both
ends.

Best Regards
Nils

On Tue, May 2, 2017, at 12:34, erik.taraldsen at telenor.com wrote:
> I'm actually most interested in how this works on low bandwidth accesses.
>  Typicaly, what can we as an ISP do to make ADSL and VDSL less sucky for
> our customers.  So an Edge Router PoE-5  1) or the X sfp 2) would be a
> good platform for this?  (Don't need the PoE or sfp, but it's the easiest
> accessible version here in Norway).
> 
> Nils, very good of you to keep such packages precompiled! That will save
> me a lot of time.
> 
> 
> 1)
> https://www.komplett.no/product/867933/datautstyr/nettverk/routere/ubiquiti-edgerouter-5-port-poe
> 2)
> https://www.komplett.no/product/898813/datautstyr/nettverk/routere/ubiquiti-edgerouter-x-sfp#
> 
> -Erik
> 
> ________________________________________
> Fra: Lochnair <me at lochnair.net>
> Sendt: 28. april 2017 18:39
> Til: Taraldsen Erik
> Kopi: cake at lists.bufferbloat.net
> Emne: Re: [Cake] Recomended HW to run cake and fq_codel?
> 
> Hi Erik
> 
> I can't speak for what's "recommended" hardware for running CAKE on, but
> from experience I can say that CAKE runs quite well on the EdgeRouters.
> The EdgeRouter platform does not have CAKE support built-in, so I
> maintain pre-compiled binaries here:
> https://community.ubnt.com/topic/239619/cake-and-fq-pie-compiled-for-the-edgerouter-devices/1
> 
> In terms of expected performance, I've seen tests on the ER-Lite come
> out at about ~80Mb/20Mb on a 200Mb/20Mb link. I've not been able to do
> any "perf" runs on it myself, as my only one is in production. I don't
> have an ER-X, but one of the guys on the UBNT forum claimed to get
> ~120-140 Mbit symmetric on the ER-X model.
> 
> Best Regards
> Nils
>