[MLB-WIRELESS] FW: [Syd-Wireless] [Wireless] Bandwidth Propos

[andrewg at d2.net.au]

>> I personally like Ben's ideas on QoS and stuff (*cough* mojo*
>> *cough* - if
>> we had archives, check back to early last year :-P), although
>> i'd forsee
>> practical problems in implementing it. (how to make sure it's
>> used, if its
>> a complicated process to setup us plebs would be lost, etc)
>

As just mentioned, I don't think people will implement it, unless there is
something for them in it, or you cvan threaten them with something that'll
make them toe the line (upstream routers enforce at most 1mpbs coming from
that network? kinda depends if they are a transit network, or stub and
stuff.)

> I agree, Ben's basic ideas had some merit.  Just a bit of refining here
> and there, and then the practical problem of implementation.  QoS will
> be needed at some stage anyway, because things like games (I don't play
> them myself, but a lot do) and VoIP will need some priority, while
> stuff like P2P file transfers can be shoved into the background and use
> whatever spare bandwidth that no-one else needed at the time.
>
>> A installer/debian package/rpm that set everything up by
>> asking relevant
>> questions and stuff would be cool...
>
> Very cool... well, install the package and then have a routesetup.sh
> script to configure it... :)

I've wrote a C program that asks questions that spits out revelant
zebra.conf and ospfd.conf files, just need to fix one thing with it.

Granted though, it would be nice if I got around to making a menu-based
version, as that's a lot easier to correct and use for some people.

>>
>> .. that, or we get everyone to pay $50/year memberships fees,
>> and we use
>> the money to develop a small box/AP that has multiple links
>> and does the
>> routing automatically :) .....
>

Routing automatically is somewhat interesting, from memory, cuwireless.net
has some ideas/implementation on that.

Granted, I'm trying to work some stuff out with the zebra maintainers, who
haven't even answered my questions about same area route filtering (It'd be
nice to dream that everyone would setup their configurations correctly, but
I doubt it. Implementing S-BGP would be somewhat cool, though thats not
OSPF), and whether or not Roger Venning's patch will be put into CVS. If
not, I'll prolly fix the md5 authentication bug that was fixed in the
latest verion.

Sincerely,
Andrew Griffiths



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