[Codel] [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] capturing packets and applying qdiscs

[David Lang]

I gathered a bunch of stats from the Scale conference this year

http://lang.hm/scale/2015/stats/

this includes very frequent dumps of transmission speed data per MAC address per 
AP

David Lang

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Isaac Konikoff wrote:

> Thanks for pointing out horst.
>
> I've been trying wireshark io graphs such as:
> retry comparison:  wlan.fc.retry==0 (line) to wlan.fc.retry==1 (impulse)
> beacon delays:  wlan.fc.type_subtype==0x08 AVG frame.time_delta_displayed
>
> I've uploaded my pcap files, netperf-wrapper results and lanforge script 
> reports which have some aggregate graphs below all of the pie charts. The 
> pcap files with 64sta in the name correspond to the script reports.
>
> candelatech.com/downloads/wifi-reports/trial1
>
> I'll upload more once I try the qdisc suggestions and I'll generate 
> comparison plots.
>
> Isaac
>
> On 03/27/2015 10:21 AM, Aaron Wood wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:smithbone at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Using horst I've discovered that the major reason our WiFi network
>>     sucks is because 90% of the packets are sent at the 6mbit rate. 
>> Most of the rest show up in the 12 and 24mbit zone with a tiny
>>     fraction of them using the higher MCS rates.
>>
>>     Trying to couple the radiotap info with the packet decryption to
>>     discover the sources of those low-bit rate packets is where I've
>>     been running into difficulty.  I can see the what but I haven't
>>     had much luck on the why.
>>
>>     I totally agree with you that tools other than wireshark for
>>     analyzing this seem to be non-existent.
>> 
>> 
>> Using the following filter in Wireshark should get you all that 6Mbps 
>> traffic:
>> 
>> radiotap.datarate == 6
>> 
>> Then it's pretty easy to dig into what those are (by wifi frame-type, at 
>> least).  At my network, that's mostly broadcast traffic (AP beacons and 
>> whatnot), as the corporate wifi has been set to use that rate as the 
>> broadcast rate.
>> 
>> without capturing the WPA exchange, the contents of the data frames can't 
>> be seen, of course.
>> 
>> -Aaron
>
>
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