[ovs-discuss] Limit packets per second on a port

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:19:38PM +0200, S?bastien Riccio wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to limit the output packets rate on a
> vswitch port, but I'm a bit lost.
> Is it even possible ? I know it is possible to limite the data rate,
> but is it possible with packets ?

I don't think that there is a way to do this "out of the box".  You
can probably convince the HTB qdisc to do this, by using a rate table
that counts all packets equally, but that would require some work.

What is the reason to want to limit the packet count, as opposed to
the data rate?