[Cerowrt-devel] Ubnt builds

[Outback Dingo]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Andy S <andys at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
>
> On 6 September 2012 17:20, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The ubnt builds are a bit out of date (part of my test deployment of
>> fq_codel at a campground here - the yurtlab!
>> http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/lupin/yurtlab.jpg which is
>> blessedly free
>> of competing wifi signals)
>>
>> They are also a little specialized. Among other things, they have my
>> ssh public key in them,
>> and are keyed to local dns, they rely on the babel protocol to route
>> and mesh together, although they do come up presently on a fixed ip
>> address that needs to be changed, instead of relying on AHCP for their
>> IPs and dns.
>>
>> All of quagga (including OSPF) IS built, it's just that babel is the
>> default.
>>
>> In working with this build and test deployment I exposed some problems
>> with memory usage in codel and the ath9k driver. Quagga will get
>> OOM-killed under heavy loads, such as RTP and UDP flooding across
>> multiple diffserv values, on the 2HP boxes in AP mode. The p2p
>> backbone (nanostation M5s) has never crashed on me.
>>
>> This points long term towards developing a "mfq_codel", which would
>> have one qdisc and *one* set of buffers that controls all four
>> hardware queues. However, try as I might, I haven't wrapped my head
>> around how to merge the code for sch_mq and sch_fq_codel, in a way
>> that would work. (?)
>>
>> Aside from that it's working rather well, and the hacks I have in
>> place now to reduce skb size seem to help a lot.
>>
>> Now that the memory problems are mostly beaten I will be doing a
>> respin and re-deployment towards the end of the month. If I can build
>> something a little more generic and easy to deploy on ubnt for others,
>> I will do so, getting to where all this code runs well in 32MB is
>> rather important to me.
>>
>> Let me know.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Andy S <andys at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
>> > I see that there are UBNT builds available for specific deployment
>> > scenarios; we use Ubiquiti Bullet M5's on some parts of our (city-wide)
>> > 5.8Ghz wireless network, but they don't support OSPF, so if any of the
>> > builds of Cerowrt support Bullet M5 and OSPF (I see the Quagga-ospf
>> > modules
>> > available in the main devel builds) - we would be interested to
>> > hear/test!
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > A
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>> --
>> Dave Täht
>> http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki - "3.3.8-17 is out
>> with fq_codel!"
>
>
> Sounds great, still none the wiser as to whether your builds will work on
> the Bullet or not, as the Bullet and NanoStation run different software by
> default.
>
> Most of what you guys do is waaay over my head, but I'm keen to try stuff
> out, although this may necessitate a sacrificial Bullet!

Once a UBNT devices image is built itll run for the most part, guess i
could spend
some time today pitching in and see if one can be created though size
might become
an issue. Ill run a build and see what happens, Ive got some Picos
here i can flash

>
> Keep us posted!
>
> A
>
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