[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ovs-docker: Ability to set the MTU of the container interface.
Gurucharan Shetty
shettyg at nicira.com
Mon May 25 08:13:26 UTC 2015
When containers are connected to a OVS bridge and tunnels
are created, it makese sense to reduce the MTU of the interafce.
Reported-by: Aurélien Poulai <aurepoulain at viacesi.fr>
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com>
---
AUTHORS | 1 +
INSTALL.Docker.md | 6 +++---
utilities/ovs-docker | 15 ++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 5178b43..574fba5 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ Anuprem Chalvadi achalvadi at vmware.com
Ariel Tubaltsev atubaltsev at vmware.com
Arkajit Ghosh arkajit.ghosh at tcs.com
Atzm Watanabe atzm at stratosphere.co.jp
+Aurélien Poulain aurepoulain at viacesi.fr
Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Ben Basler bbasler at nicira.com
Bob Ball bob.ball at citrix.com
diff --git a/INSTALL.Docker.md b/INSTALL.Docker.md
index b505a9b..9e14043 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Docker.md
+++ b/INSTALL.Docker.md
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ and then attaches it to the Open vSwitch bridge 'br-int'. This is done by
creating a veth pair. One end of the interface becomes 'eth1' inside the
container and the other end attaches to 'br-int'.
-The script also lets one to add IP address, MAC address and Gateway address to
-the interface. e.g.:
+The script also lets one to add IP address, MAC address, Gateway address and
+MTU for the interface. e.g.:
```
% ovs-docker add-port br-int eth1 $CONTAINER_ID --ipaddress=192.168.1.2/24 \
---macaddress=a2:c3:0d:49:7f:f8 --gateway=192.168.1.1
+--macaddress=a2:c3:0d:49:7f:f8 --gateway=192.168.1.1 --mtu=1450
```
* A previously added network interface can be deleted. e.g.:
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-docker b/utilities/ovs-docker
index 12c3246..43cea54 100755
--- a/utilities/ovs-docker
+++ b/utilities/ovs-docker
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ add_port () {
GATEWAY=`expr X"$1" : 'X[^=]*=\(.*\)'`
shift
;;
+ --mtu=*)
+ MTU=`expr X"$1" : 'X[^=]*=\(.*\)'`
+ shift
+ ;;
*)
echo >&2 "$UTIL add-port: unknown option \"$1\""
exit 1
@@ -137,6 +141,10 @@ add_port () {
ip netns exec "$PID" ip link set dev "${PORTNAME}_c" name "$INTERFACE"
ip netns exec "$PID" ip link set "$INTERFACE" up
+ if [ -n "$MTU" ]; then
+ ip netns exec "$PID" ip link set dev "$INTERFACE" mtu "$MTU"
+ fi
+
if [ -n "$ADDRESS" ]; then
ip netns exec "$PID" ip addr add "$ADDRESS" dev "$INTERFACE"
fi
@@ -216,14 +224,15 @@ usage: ${UTIL} COMMAND
Commands:
add-port BRIDGE INTERFACE CONTAINER [--ipaddress="ADDRESS"]
[--gateway=GATEWAY] [--macaddress="MACADDRESS"]
+ [--mtu=MTU]
Adds INTERFACE inside CONTAINER and connects it as a port
in Open vSwitch BRIDGE. Optionally, sets ADDRESS on
INTERFACE. ADDRESS can include a '/' to represent network
- prefix length. Optionally, sets a GATEWAY and a MACADDRESS.
- e.g.:
+ prefix length. Optionally, sets a GATEWAY, MACADDRESS
+ and MTU. e.g.:
${UTIL} add-port br-int eth1 c474a0e2830e
--ipaddress=192.168.1.2/24 --gateway=192.168.1.1
- --macaddress="a2:c3:0d:49:7f:f8"
+ --macaddress="a2:c3:0d:49:7f:f8" --mtu=1450
del-port BRIDGE INTERFACE CONTAINER
Deletes INTERFACE inside CONTAINER and removes its
connection to Open vSwitch BRIDGE. e.g.:
--
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