Excellent, thanks for the quick response. Jeff
On Oct 1, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:15:20PM -0700, Jeff Welsch wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a question regarding the interface speed of GRE tunnels. I have >> created a GRE tunnel between two instances of OVS and am able to pass >> traffic through the tunnel. The command used to configure the tunnel(s) was: >> >> ovs-vsctl add-port br0 gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre >> options:remote_ip=address >> >> My question is that when I show the interface using ovs-ofctl br0 show, OVS >> reports the port speed as 100Mbps even though I am using a 1G NIC: >> >> 2(gre0): addr:82:34:a7:24:07:d4 >> config: 0 >> state: 0 >> speed: 100 Mbps now, 100 Mbps max >> >> Is this normal behavior? This information seems to indicate to me that OVS >> may be limiting the GRE tunnel to 100 Mbps. I have tried to set the port >> speed through the configuration options but cannot get it to change. > > A GRE tunnel doesn't have a speed. ovs-vswitchd can't figure out the > speed so it's just guessing 100 Mbps. It's not limiting the GRE > tunnel speed. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
