On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:42:49PM -0500, Faisal Ali wrote:
> How does openvswitch determines port speed, I noticed that my VM's NIC
> was gigabit speeds but ovs port connected to the VM was settling on
> 100/full.

Open vSwitch gets the port speed from the (host) operating system.

A virtual NIC doesn't have a meaningful speed.  You might as well ignore
whatever it says.

> I also noticed the physical NIC in that same bridge was also settling
> on 100/full. Does that mean speeds or only determined by the physical
> NIC.

Certainly the speed of packets transmitted over a physical wire is
limited by the physical NIC.

> How about in case of bonded interface, how r the speeds determined than?

Each interface has a speed.
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