Re: [ovs-discuss] Fixed MAC address for OVS bridge

2011-06-14 Thread Justin Pettit
Something like this should do the trick: ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 other-config:hwaddr=00:11:22:33:44:55 Obviously, replacing "br0" with the name of your bridge and using the appropriate MAC address. --Justin On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Dieter Imann wrote: > Dear All, > > would you

[ovs-discuss] Fixed MAC address for OVS bridge

2011-06-14 Thread Dieter Imann
Dear All, would you be so kind to let me know how to configure a fixed mac address for an openvswitch-bridge. Best regards, Dieter ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/g

Re: [ovs-discuss] About CPU usage and packet size

2011-06-14 Thread Justin Pettit
It takes CPU cycles to process the packet, but much fewer of them. The biggest wins are that the packet doesn't need to be sent to userspace (and back) and the kernel's exact-match hash lookup is much cheaper than the userspace's fully wildcard-able classifier. --Justin On Jun 14, 2011, at 8

Re: [ovs-discuss] About CPU usage and packet size

2011-06-14 Thread Victor Torres
Justin, Thanks again for your reply. But i have then one more question: Flows installed in the kernell doesn't consume CPU? Or is it that at the rates i'm using (50Mb/s), the number of packets (100 byte-datagrams) aren't enough to consume noticeable CPU? I've noticed in the "ovs-dpctl show" that

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch 1.1.1 Available

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Phaal
On Jun 13, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: > >> I guess I am not clear where in the ofproto -> ofproto-dpif -> dpif -> dpif >> provider -> datapath stack the decision to use exact_match or keep wildcards >> is made. It seems like it would be a good idea to try and push that decision >