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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear CAKE experts,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I write for your help in getting CAKE to perform on my router as I understand it should.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I replaced my aging Asus home router with a Ubiquiti Edgerouter 4 specifically so I could take advantage of the port of CAKE to it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am in the US, with VDSL2 service provided by AT&T at 100/20. I now have all unfiltered traffic delivered by the AT&T modem to the eth0 port on the router.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My desktop runs Windows. So, to take advantage of flent to quantify CAKE performance, I stood up a Linux Mint VM and ran flent rrul tests before CAKE installation, and after.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The first attached datafile, labeled qdisc pfifo fast, is the performance before CAKE. The other file, called 20/95 ack filtered bridged ptm, is my latest attempt with configuring CAKE flags. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My major issue is with Ingress. Egress seems fine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For ingress, I see very little difference between performances with and without CAKE. And the overall throughput is far less than 100 mbit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The queuing disciplines on the router are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>jeremymarks@ubnt:~$ sudo tc qdisc show<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>qdisc cake 1: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 bandwidth 20Mbit besteffort dual-srchost nat nowash ack-filter split-gso rtt 100.0ms ptm overhead 22 no-sce<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>qdisc ingress ffff: dev eth0 parent ffff:fff1 ----------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>qdisc pfifo_fast 0: dev imq0 root refcnt 2 bands 3 priomap 1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>qdisc cake 2: dev ifb0 root refcnt 2 bandwidth 95Mbit besteffort dual-dsthost nat nowash ingress ack-filter split-gso rtt 100.0ms ptm overhead 22 no-sce<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I must be making a major mistake in configuring CAKE.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would be grateful for any help or advice in getting this amazing program to work as it should. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks for any help.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeremy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>