[Commotion-dev] QOS, Commotion, and Tomato's

[Will Hawkins]

Hey Seamus,

I will admit upfront that tl;dr. However, we've had lots of feedback 
from the participants in the workshop that QoS and traffic parameters 
would be immensely useful tools for mesh deployments. I've told them all 
about your work and I'm sure that no matter what path our development 
takes on this issue you will come up with a great tool.

Will

On 06/07/2013 09:08 AM, Seamus Tuohy wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I dropped development on a user interfacefor the QOS work a few weeks
> ago and I wanted to give an update in case anyone wants to take it on in
> the future.
>
> Looking at various interfaces I think that modifying the Tomato
> interface for QOS http://www.easytomato.org/features/scheduled-rules/,
> which is based on the Toastman version of Tomato
> http://linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/toastman-releases.36106/, is
> the best option for implementing QOS on Commotion. It is currently built
> for DD-Wrt, but looking at the scripts it mainly creates TC files, and
> as such, would be an easy enough lift to move over to OpenWRT and LuCI.
> Though, there will be some extra work fiddling with multiple zone rules.
>
> Below is some useful info from William Dixon at Easy Tomato that I
> thought would be useful to append to this if anyone wants to continue
> this work.
>
> "One of the really hard parts of this is to automatically figure out
> your connection speed without constantly blasting huge amounts of data
> over the network (you need your speed for QoS settings and they can
> fluctuate a lot during a day).  There are a few ways to do it, but its a
> lot of work, but really needs to a grad research project.  We were
> hoping research group at GaTech would do it for us, but that's looking
> less likely.
>
> This is
> long<http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/using-qos-tutorial-and-discussion.28349/>,
> but a very good overview of how QOS stuff works.  It takes a LOT of
> fiddling to get it really sail (and more dangerously, some
> counterintuitive settings), but once it does, it's awesome!  We got a
> hospital with 100 computers to go from website timeouts to skype calls
> with a single router!"
>
>
> s2e
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