[Battlemesh] Testbed v15 (2023)

[Pedro]

Thanks for showing your interest Dave,

Right now we are focusing on improving the calafou's network, we are 
expecting to have:

- 5 plasmacloud wifi routers (thanks Marek, Simon for making it 
possible); update: today I received the PoEs to connect them
- 3 reaconditionated xiaomi routers (crossfingers we can bypass the 4 
warnings and hack them with openwrt [1])

and nearly 18 devices TP-LINK TL-WDR4300 of UPC as you might have seen 
in previous editions

so now I have 3 devices with me, and I will ensure they work, and start 
flashing the openwisp image Federico is working on

I think it would be appreciated to have a wiki page for the v15 testbed 
so we can have all the info there

We expect to have a testbed running from day 1, so that's the priority now

If we manage to have more time we will consider your ideas Dave; but 
ideally, people should get involved to ensure things get done

Cheers!!
Pedro

[1] https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/xiaomi/xiaomi_mi_router_4a_gigabit_edition

On 3/20/23 17:34, Dave Taht via Battlemesh wrote:
> I am not planning to come to battlemesh once again. :( However, I
> would love to steer y'all at the wonderful new passive monitoring
> tools that kathie nichols (pping), simon sundberg and toke and jesper
> (epping) and more recently the libreqos.io project has developed to
> where they can run at 10s of gbits per core and gain unprecedented
> insight into the real behaviors of real flows, sampling at 10ms
> interval. Slow start, sawtooths, the impact of one flow into another,
> and underlying wifi behaviors are all observable.
>
> I do hope you use flent to drive some tests! I am so hopeful for
> wonderful improvements in the rtt_fair test series as well, and I am
> dying to hear news of how well the latest babeld is performing.
>
> For a live demo of libreqos 1.5 (heimdall branch), please click on
> https://payne.taht.net and hit "bandwidth test" if one is not already
> running. It is flent driving the tests (as well as broadband forum's
> tr-471), one of my favorites is now the tcp_4up_squarewave test
> because I love seeing the waveforms crash into each other.
>
> Libreqos basically leverages ebpf, XDP, cake diffserv4, and a ton of
> rust to do its magic, it can be configured to transparently bridge a
> network, and even work to bridge across two vlans. It takes about 20
> minutes to compile, but we do have a .deb available for the upcoming
> 1.4 release which cuts the install time down to 5 minutes. It is too
> big and too complex to run on openwrt (maybe next year?), and thus we
> use ubuntu for it, and have it pushing well over 10k subscribers
> through cake for multiple ISPs now at greater than 13Gbits.
>
> We gave a talk about it over here:
>
> https://packetpushers.net/podcast/heavy-networking-666-improving-quality-of-experience-with-libreqos/
>
> github here: https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS
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