CakeQOS CakeQoS-Merlin v2.0.0 alpha

[ttgapers]

It is with great pleasure I can announce a couple items:

• We have an Alpha candidate for testing against the latest beta @RMerlin 386.2 firmware
• I/we are very happy to welcome @dave14305 onboard the Cake bandwagon. He has done all of the updates to the alpha script.
• We were early testers of the 386.2 firmware from @RMerlin and was a sudden but pleasant surprise to hear that there is/was a possibility of Cake getting into the main firmware builds. As past users of Cake knew, getting builds was a challenge for the team.
• I am still learning as we go along from the more experienced ones around here. I owe you all immense thanks!

Thanks for all those who assisted before. Now for the stuff you have been chomping at the bit for:

Note: This is ALPHA

• Currently supports ASUS HND models running Merlin firmware (386.2 and above)
• Preliminary support for firmware detection to allow for 384 installs to the read-only branch (which includes previous Cake Entware installs)
• Added GUI interface to 386.2 installs for ease of customizations (thanks @dave14305)
• Cake CLI updates to support changes
• Add-on now adds/edits/updates the /jffs/configs/cake-qos.conf.add file
• Add logic in case Cake is not enabled in firmware
• Add uninstall of CakeQOS-Merlin 1.0 components during install
• Cleanup legacy files from 2.0 branch
• Handle installs for users still on 386.1 or lower
• Remove old cfg file on install

Hope you enjoy the latest Cake enhancements and HUGE thanks once again to @dave14305 & @RMerlin for making this happen!

Alpha Install (all supported HW/firmware):

mkdir -p /jffs/addons/cake-qos && /usr/sbin/curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ttgapers/cakeqos-merlin/alpha/cake-qos.sh" -o "/jffs/addons/cake-qos/cake-qos" && chmod 755 /jffs/addons/cake-qos/cake-qos && sh /jffs/addons/cake-qos/cake-qos install

In case of any issues/rollback
Current Release for non 386.2 firmware:

mkdir -p /jffs/addons/cake-qos && /usr/sbin/curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ttgapers/cakeqos-merlin/master/cake-qos.sh" -o "/jffs/addons/cake-qos/cake-qos" && chmod 755 /jffs/addons/cake-qos/cake-qos && sh /jffs/addons/cake-qos/cake-qos install

Github: https://github.com/ttgapers/cakeqos-merlin/tree/alpha

 

[ttgapers]

Fixes & Updates

• Add logic in case Cake is not enabled in firmware
• Add uninstall of CakeQOS-Merlin 1.0 components during install
• Cleanup legacy files from 2.0 branch
• Handle installs for users still on 386.1 or lower
• Remove old cfg file on install
• Updated README

Thanks once more to the awesome @dave14305 for the updates/fixes.

 

[ttgapers]

Known Issues

• If you were running the 1.0.8 script, you need to stop cake-qos first in case of a conflict with ifb9eth0 and the firmware ifb4eth0. This is a subtle change to get in uniformity with the interface used by @RMerlin in the main firmware.

 

[Jack Yaz]

@dave14305 did i see correctly all settings are going to live in /jffs/addons/custom_settings.txt , or are they flushed to a separate config?

 

[dave14305]

@dave14305 did i see correctly all settings are going to live in /jffs/addons/custom_settings.txt , or are they flushed to a separate config?

All non-default settings. So it’s not too bulky, for now. Plans for the future however...

 

[Jack Yaz]

All non-default settings. So it’s not too bulky, for now. Plans for the future however...

cool, sounds good. the only script of mine where I need as much space (temp) as possible is YazDHCP. you're eating into people's reservation capacity :O
I kid, great work! now if someone could make cake give me good perf at 550/35....on an 86u....

 

[dave14305]

cool, sounds good. the only script of mine where I need as much space (temp) as possible is YazDHCP. you're eating into people's reservation capacity :O
I kid, great work! now if someone could make cake give me good perf at 550/35....on an 86u....

I have reservations about their reservations.

 

[dave14305]

cool, sounds good. the only script of mine where I need as much space (temp) as possible is YazDHCP. you're eating into people's reservation capacity :O
I kid, great work! now if someone could make cake give me good perf at 550/35....on an 86u....

Waiting for Cake charts with the new JSON output from iproute2! Add to the Cake!

 

[askan7]

Installed this and couldn't even access the router from webgui, no internet, nothing worked. Had to do the factory reset using the wps+power. I didn't disable QOS and had cake on, maybe that's what caused it?

 

[Jack Yaz]

Waiting for Cake charts with the new JSON output from iproute2! Add to the Cake!

is that you saying you're adding it or trying to lure me in to get my slice? ;p

 

[dave14305]

Installed this and couldn't even access the router from webgui, no internet, nothing worked. Had to do the factory reset using the wps+power. I didn't disable QOS and had cake on, maybe that's what caused it?

If you were running the 1.0.8 script, you probably need to stop cake-qos first in case of a conflict with ifb9eth0 and the firmware ifb4eth0.

 

[dave14305]

is that you saying you're adding it or trying to lure me in to get my slice? ;p

I’m full, I left some for you.

 

[ttgapers]

Waiting for Cake charts with the new JSON output from iproute2! Add to the Cake!

Oh boy - wouldn't this be sweet. I second, third and fourth this!

 

[askan7]

If you were running the 1.0.8 script, you probably need to stop cake-qos first in case of a conflict with ifb9eth0 and the firmware ifb4eth0.

I was running 386.2 beta built-in cake. Didn't have 1.0.8 installed.

Tried again after factory reset, works fine.

 

[ttgapers]

If you were running the 1.0.8 script, you probably need to stop cake-qos first in case of a conflict with ifb9eth0 and the firmware ifb4eth0.

Yes this makes sense for sure.

 

[askan7]

Works very well, I'm having similar results in dslreports to 386.2 alpha. I was getting worse results with 386.2 beta, bufferbloat always A, sometime(very rare A+) but quality C.

Now Quality is A, sometimes B. I don't know why quality drops from constant A+ with QOS OFF to C-A with Cake/Adaptive QOS.

 

[lilstone87]

This may come off as a silly question. But I wanted to ask, any changes made, and applied on this tab. Do I need to stop, and restart QoS, for these changes to be applied?

 

[dave14305]

This may come off as a silly question. But I wanted to ask, any changes made, and applied on this tab. Do I need to stop, and restart QoS, for these changes to be applied?

The Apply button takes care of that.

 

[heysoundude]

cool, sounds good. the only script of mine where I need as much space (temp) as possible is YazDHCP. you're eating into people's reservation capacity :O
I kid, great work! now if someone could make cake give me good perf at 550/35....on an 86u....

You've an almost 16:1 down:up asymmetry - have you seen the discussion from http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-386-2-beta-is-now-available.71038/post-674379
and tried ack filtering?

 

[dave14305]

This Addon won’t work well with the current Merlin experiment because it overwrites the cake-qos.conf.add file every time it applies changes. Just FYI.