[ovs-discuss] Flood test with xen/openvswitch

Sébastien Riccio sr at swisscenter.com
Fri Sep 9 18:10:27 UTC 2011


On 09.09.2011 20:09, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:05:00PM +0200, S?bastien Riccio wrote:
>> Okay thanks it's clear. I'm trying to find a way to be nearly sure
>> that on a xen host if a customer vm gets hacked and starts flooding
>> the network like hell, it doesn't render the whole host unreachable
>> (That's what happened the first time I tried this test.)  The first
>> step for me was to know what was the expected behavior of
>> openvswitch when this happens and then find a way to prevent it.
> I think this is where Jesse's kernel work to ensure that no individual
> port can monopolize the kernel-to-user flow reporting channel becomes
> useful.  I hope that it will be ready soon.
>

Ah, excellent. I will be ready to test it when it'll be ready. Thanks 
for your help!

Sébastien




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