[ovs-dev] Rate Limit - help

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:46:40PM +0100, mvpbl_c at iol.pt wrote:
>    Have someone tested if the rate limit works properly on OpenvSwitch
> 1.8.90, that is the version I have installed, or in other version?

I have not tested it myself.

>    You said: "It's a feature of the Linux kernel.  Open vSwitch just
> configures the feature." But I think openvSwitch implements token bucket
> on source code because there are token-bucket.c and token-bucket.h.

Open vSwitch contains a token bucket implementation, but the ingress
rate limiting feature does not use this token bucket implementation.

>    My procedures are: create a bridge br0 and I after add eth0 and eth1,
> and after this I set the rate an burst. The interfaces eth0 and eth1 have
> to be mandatory virtual interfaces? or can be normal physical interfaces?

A physical interface is fine.