[ovs-dev] Rate Limit - help

[Luiz Ozaki]

On 8/20/12 1:06 PM, mvpbl_c at iol.pt wrote:
>
> I try to aply this rate-limit:
> #ovs-vsctl set Interface eth0 ingress_policing_rate=1000
> #ovs-vsctl set Interface eth0 ingress_policing_burst=100
>
> and also this:
> #ovs-vsctl set Interface eth1 ingress_policing_rate=1000
> #ovs-vsctl set Interface eth1 ingress_policing_burst=100
>
> I have apply first to eth0 after to eth1 and also in eth0 and eth1. I 
> test with iper, with NetStress and also with an ftp file transference.
> But this is not limiting the rate, why?
>
Well, are you doing the FTP between the VMs inside the same host ? (just 
to be sure)

If you are, you need to make the QoS on the VMs bridges/tap.

Try look here too:
http://openvswitch.org/support/config-cookbooks/qos-rate-limiting/

-- 
Luiz Henrique Ozaki