[Cerowrt-devel] CeroWrt 3.10.18-1 Field Report

[Richard E. Brown]

On Nov 12, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Fred Stratton <fredstratton at imap.cc> wrote:

> After your helpful writeup as an ADSL user, I am expanding on the previous remarks I made. SM is making his contribution as I write.
> 
> For several years, I have been with Telefonica O2 as an ISP. This network gave subscribers a dynamic ipv4 address which did not change unless the gateway WAN MAC changed. Sky bought the network to get the 400 000 subscribers and migrated everyone to their network, closing the O2 setup. I left, moving to TalkTalk, a network which gives out a different ipv4 address every time it retrains, two or three times a day at present, using their proprietary dynamic line management unchanged.
> 
> I threw away the supplied Trendchip box, and use a 1483-bridged TP-Link TD-W8970 to connect to the phone line.
> 
> Here, PPPoE always comes up using the 3.10.18-1 build. Henet is more problematic. I lose ipv6 connectivity every five or so retrains, and have to reboot the router.
> 
> The latest builds allow concurrent downloading or the use of torrents and video streaming 90 per cent of the time. tc-stab is apparently functional.
> 
> Changing ISP has been a very illuminating exercise from the point of view of 'bufferbloat'. O2 lost a lot of packets through their site screening mechanism. TalkTalk subcontracts its deep packet inspection to Huawei in China. This minimises packet loss.
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> Have set AQM to circa 70 percent of download sync and 95 per cent of upload sync, based on empirical incremental changes.

What other information could I collect if I find that PPPoE isn’t coming up reliably?

re: HEnet tunnels not coming up. There’s an easier way to reconnect the tunnel by going to a HTTPS link. It’s described in the IPv6 Tunnel page on the wiki: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/IPv6_Tunnel (Check out step 3, manually re-establishing the tunnel)

Rich