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.

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