[Cake] CAKE is going to be deployed on Alta Labs any day now!

[Frantisek Borsik]

Alta Labs just published a video explaining their CAKE implementation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDO0flKcI0

All the best,

Frank

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM Daryll Swer <contact at daryllswer.com> wrote:

> I was looking at your Route10 product, but it looks to be consumer-heavy,
> at this point time. I run stuff like BGP in my home network (as I have
> MPLS-to-the-home delivery) and PIM-SM, would be cool if you folks supported
> some DC-fabric features on Route10 in the future with FRR as the daemon or
> something.
>
> One thing I'd like to mention, Route10 should have a good NAT
> implementation to support EIM-NAT for TCP/UDP to allow P2P networking to
> work over a NAT box.
> Additionally, support NAT Hairpinning for user's LAN subnets to allow
> intra-NAT traffic to work over STUN discovery, this eliminates TURN traffic.
> Small to large-scale CGNAT deployments around the globe is something I've
> been consulting for a few years now. I'm happy to potentially beta test
> your products, if you'd like, for best practices conformance with very
> specific RFCs.
>
> BQL would be good to have for long-term viewpoint, perhaps your Ethernet
> driver provider, could patch it up for BQL support and that would be a good
> foundation for FQ_Codel on your Route10. MikroTik has FQ_Codel, but lacks
> BQL, and they refused to listen to Fran and Dave Taht, so perhaps you folks
> are our only hope :)
>
> *--*
> Best Regards
> Daryll Swer
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>
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 20:53, Jeff Hansen <x at jeffhansen.com> wrote:
>
>> Frank,
>>
>> The hardware that Route10 is based off of doesn’t support FQ Codel nor
>> CAKE at all, so everything is done in software on our 5.4 Linux kernel. It
>> works great, though. In some instances it’s the only way to max out a PPPoE
>> connection and have optimal latency.
>>
>> It doesn’t look like our ethernet driver supports BQL at all, so we
>> haven’t tried that yet, but as is, it absolutely eliminates high latency if
>> tuned properly.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2025, at 2:27 AM, Frantisek Borsik <frantisek.borsik at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Happy to see that! Thanks, guys.
>>
>> Adding Jeff
>> <https://mailtrack.io/l/874104aa2fae8c2c3e8c0b7c66386cd9ef1a83ab?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjeff-hansen-6794021%2F&u=2153471&signature=efe63bcd8a19e5e7>,
>> Alta Labs CTO - Darryl
>> <https://mailtrack.io/l/56dc9d27cea2a0afbd536db4021116428c91b0e6?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FDaryllSwer%2Fstatus%2F1902486684476047544&u=2153471&signature=b49f25a96708f53a>
>> has a suggestion how to push this further: "Maybe they can add both
>> FQ_CoDel and CAKE with BQL support? How's hardware-offloading of FQ_CoDel
>> looking on these “prosumer” equipment these days? I haven't kept up over a
>> year on this topic."
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> Frantisek (Frank) Borsik
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > On 19 Mar, 2025, at 12:01 am, Frantisek Borsik via Cake <
>>> cake at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Should be pushed through production in day or two and they will be
>>> talking about it on https://streamyard.com/watch/ubYm2AffWkYi
>>> <https://mailtrack.io/l/f6be4a2c3da3f8d78695f24266cda26e686e9453?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstreamyard.com%2Fwatch%2FubYm2AffWkYi&u=2153471&signature=a5dbc7add3e2dbe3>
>>> this Wednesday,  March 19, at 1PM EST / 12PM CST / 11AM MST / 10AM PST
>>>
>>> I joined the stream, and was able to ask about the throughput they were
>>> getting with CAKE on their hardware.  This is just for the "Route 10"
>>> rather than their APs, and they reported getting about 2.5Gbps throughput
>>> with CAKE enabled. They do correctly note that the hardware-accelerated
>>> forwarding path is disabled for the interface where CAKE is turned on.
>>>
>>> Supporting 2.5Gbps is pretty good I think, and should be sufficient to
>>> handle all practical Internet subscriptions that are likely to require
>>> bufferbloat mitigation.  For comparison, on the same call they claimed
>>> about 800Mbps throughput for acting as a WireGuard tunnel endpoint.
>>>
>>>  - Jonathan Morton
>>
>>
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