Yes, link_speed reports what the kernel reports. It is not a mechanism for setting the link speed.
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:28:36PM +0000, Savvas Zannettou wrote: > So you are saying that OpenvSwitch does not define the link_speed in the > source code but it just takes the information from the underlying linux > kernel? > > On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 5:23:44 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > The message from ethtool probably indicates that the kernel driver > > doesn't support configuring that feature, so there probably isn't any > > way to do it. (This will still be the answer no matter how you rephrase > > the question.) > > > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:58:03AM +0000, Savvas Zannettou wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Do you know what changes do i have to do in OVS source code so the > > default > > > advertised link speed to be 10Mbps for example? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Savvas > > > > > > On Wed Oct 22 2014 at 4:48:16 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > > > > The message from ethtool probably indicates that the kernel driver > > > > doesn't support configuring that feature, so there probably isn't any > > > > way to do it. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:10:25AM +0200, Savvas Zannettou wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any other idea how i can change the advertised port > > speed of > > > > > OVS? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Savvas > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Savvas Zannettou wrote: > > > > > > > I want to change the advertised speed for the OVS Switches that i > > > > create > > > > > > > from my mininet. The default value is 10Gbits/s and i want to > > > > decrease > > > > > > it. > > > > > > > Do you know any way how to achieve that from Mininet Api or any > > > > other > > > > > > way > > > > > > > to get this done? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried with ethtool but i get the following error: > > > > > > > Cannot set new settings: Operation not supported > > > > > > > not setting speed > > > > > > > > > > > > That probably indicates that the kernel driver doesn't support > > > > > > configuring that feature, so there probably isn't any way to do it. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
