Re: [ovs-discuss] Port speed and duplex

2013-10-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 01:33:57PM -0500, Faisal Ali wrote: > 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? Yes, as I said, the speed of the virtual NIC does not matter. _

Re: [ovs-discuss] Port speed and duplex

2013-10-01 Thread Faisal Ali
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 wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:42:49PM -0500, Faisal Ali wrote: >> How does openvs

Re: [ovs-discuss] Port speed and duplex

2013-09-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
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 d

[ovs-discuss] Port speed and duplex

2013-09-30 Thread Faisal Ali
Hello folks, 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. 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 p