[LARTC] Open Source Project "Q*Box" Launched

[LARTC] Open Source Project "Q*Box" Launched

[Ron Senykoff]

Hello all.

I created a "plug and play" kind of solution for bridge-based QoS
LAN-WAN traffic shaping. Based on the LEAF bering-uClibc branch, I'm
calling it 'QBox' and the project site for now is located at:

http://content.cs.luc.edu/projects/comp412/q-box

I'm interested in any feedback you might have. This is based off of
experience I have over the last couple years maintaining custom QoS
builds shaping video, citrix, and VoIP all at one site (plus regular
internet etc). The current build takes about 2.5 MB on CF and I should
have that paired down further before long.

Havn't had the chance to do any stress testing yet, but the
manufacturer of the board claims that you can get 50Mbps routed
through it. Once I add Layer 7 filtering I doubt we'll be able to
sustain that though.

Thanks,
-Ron
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Re: [LARTC] Open Source Project "Q*Box" Launched

[Ron Senykoff]

> This looks really neat!  I considered building something similar in the
> past but never got around to.  Have you considered adding MRTG or
> Cricket for graphing?

Great suggestions. I definitely want to include monitoring tools. I
have used ntop before, but ran into performance issues even on a T-1
link (Pentium Pro proc) -- but come to think of it I was also doing
some heavy monitoring of the queues. MRTG and Cricket look to be much
lighter weight. Do you have experience with which one would require
less CPU?

Thanks,
-Ron
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Re: [LARTC] Open Source Project "Q*Box" Launched

[gypsy]

Ron Senykoff wrote:
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> I created a "plug and play" kind of solution for bridge-based QoS
> LAN-WAN traffic shaping. Based on the LEAF bering-uClibc branch, I'm
> calling it 'QBox' and the project site for now is located at:
> 
> http://content.cs.luc.edu/projects/comp412/q-box

The qboxWhitepaper.pdf paragraph 2.1 is chopped off.

Neat idea.  I intend to try it out.  Thanks!
--
gypsy
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Re: [LARTC] Open Source Project "Q*Box" Launched

[Ron Senykoff]

On 11/4/05, gypsy <gypsy@iswest.com> wrote:
>
> The qboxWhitepaper.pdf paragraph 2.1 is chopped off.
>
> Neat idea.  I intend to try it out.  Thanks!

Thanks for letting me know about the chopped off paragraph.

I'm putting out v0.2 now which will fix a reboot issue (I forgot to
set the watchdog timer up correctly on my last build) and add the
parameter for defining the gateway in the networking configuration
file. Everything else has been rock solid for me over the last couple
weeks.

Let me know if you have any questions.

-Ron
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Re: [LARTC] Open Source Project "Q*Box" Launched

[Toby]

Ron Senykoff wrote:
> MRTG and Cricket look to be much lighter weight. Do you have
> experience with which one would require less CPU?

I think that a SNMP daemon would require the least CPU, letting the user
do his own graphing using MRTG, Cricket or any other product he might
already be using to monitor other appliances.

Otherwise, if you want to include graphs in your web interface, MRTG and
Cricket consume pretty much the same (usually negligible) CPU, as they
both use RRDTool as a backend to collect and graph data.


Toby

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