Thanks, so what if host NIC is 10gig, does that mean virtual switchport will try to push data at 10 Gig speed even if the VM virtual NIC driver is some 1 gig model?
On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
