Iscsi Cake 1.8.0418 Jun 2026

If your iSCSI runs over a VLAN (802.1Q) or VXLAN, Cake 1.8.0418 includes improved overhead compensation, preventing miscalculations that lead to underutilization.

Here’s a tested setup for a Linux iSCSI target (e.g., LIO or SCST) serving production storage. iscsi cake 1.8.0418

tc qdisc add dev eth1 root cake bandwidth 9000Mbit \ # Slightly under link rate diffserv4 \ # Honor DSCP ack-filter \ # Reduce ACK load overhead 38 \ # For typical Ethernet+IP+TCP nat # If initiators are behind NAT If your iSCSI runs over a VLAN (802