[ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

2013-01-15 Thread Bhattiprolu RaviKumar
All, I am new to using Openvswitch. I have question of performance: What is the typical number of flows (Openflow) that can be added using "ovs-ovctl add-flow" on a xeon based server? When I run this command in a script on Xeon based server with 8GB memory, I am geeting about 250 flows/second. I

Re: [ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

2013-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 05:30:30PM +0530, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar wrote: > What is the typical number of flows (Openflow) that can be added using > "ovs-ovctl add-flow" on a xeon based server? When I run this command in a > script on Xeon based server with 8GB memory, I am geeting about 250 > flows/s

[ovs-discuss] VM's on different host are not able to communicate.

2013-01-15 Thread Anil Vishnoi
Hi, I have a setup of 2 server connected through one L2 Rack switch. Ubuntu 12.04 + KVM + openvswitch is installed on both the servers. I created one VM each on both the server. IP address of both the host and 2 VM's are in the same subnet (10.10.*.*/16). eth1 of hosts is connected to their respec

Re: [ovs-discuss] about use ovs to construct complex virtual network topologies

2013-01-15 Thread Jesse Gross
Presumably that's the easiest but please take some time to investigate yourself. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Weiwei Fang wrote: > Thanks, Jesse. And I want to ask, if I want to put all these four ovs to > work in a physical host, whether they should be configured as four bridges? > > > 2013/

Re: [ovs-discuss] Bonding configuration with arp target monitoring

2013-01-15 Thread Jesse Gross
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:51 PM, John Collaros wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed that there are no configuration options for arp target > monitoring on Openvswitch. > > I need this capability, so have had to resort to letting Linux networking > set up the bond interface and add this to my vswitch. >

Re: [ovs-discuss] VM's on different host are not able to communicate.

2013-01-15 Thread Jesse Gross
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Anil Vishnoi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a setup of 2 server connected through one L2 Rack switch. Ubuntu > 12.04 + KVM + openvswitch is installed on both the servers. I created one VM > each on both the server. IP address of both the host and 2 VM's are in the > same

Re: [ovs-discuss] vlan isolation issue

2013-01-15 Thread Túlio Gomes
Hi again Ben, here's the output (portuguese ubuntu version): Tabela de Roteamento IP do Kernel Destino RoteadorMáscaraGen.Opções MSS Janela irtt Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 br0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0

[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch 1.4.4 Available

2013-01-15 Thread Justin Pettit
The Open vSwitch team is pleased to announce the release of Open vSwitch 1.4.4 from our LTS (long-term support) series: http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.4.4.tar.gz This release only contains bug fixes. Thank you to those who reported bugs and sent in fixes. In the next co

Re: [ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

2013-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
"ovs-ofctl"? If you're adding flows one at a time, then I suggest adding multiple flows in one cmomand. That ought to be faster. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:11:58AM +0530, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar wrote: > Ben, > We are using command line using ovs-ovctl command. > > regards, > Ravi > > On Tue,

Re: [ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

2013-01-15 Thread Bhattiprolu RaviKumar
Ben, Thanks. Any idea on what would be the performance if a NOX controller is enabled? What would be the typical flow addition speed? regards, Ravi On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > "ovs-ofctl"? If you're adding flows one at a time, then I suggest > adding multiple flows in

Re: [ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

2013-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have never measured. I would expect at least thousands of flows per second. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:52:50AM +0530, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar wrote: > Ben, > Thanks. Any idea on what would be the performance if a NOX controller is > enabled? What would be the typical flow addition speed? > rega

[ovs-discuss] how to test dummy

2013-01-15 Thread Prashant Chougule
hello, I am using openvswitch-1.7.0 I enable the dummy in ovswitchd with --enable-dummy but how am going to weather dummy is working or not. please anybody tell me how to test dummy is working or not. -- Thanks &Regards, Prashant Chougule. ___ disc