[ovs-discuss] How to control incoming traffic of VMs?

[张锦成]

Hi, Ben
    "ingress_policing_rate" can only control the outgoing traffic of VMs.
I wonder how could I control the incoming traffic of VMs.
    Thx.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:11 PM, 张锦成 <perfume0607 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I misunderstood this.
> On a virtual interface (one connected to a virtual machine), this limits
> the rate at which the VM is able to transmit.(outgoing traffic)
> On a physical interface, this limits the rate at which traffic is allowed
> into the system from the outside;(incoming traffic)
> It seems a little strange.
>
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:05 PM, 张锦成 <perfume0607 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ben
>>    In this website(
>> http://openvswitch.org/support/config-cookbooks/qos-rate-limiting/), it
>> says “ingress_policing_rate”: the max-rate in kbps that this VM should
>> be allowed to send, which means the outgoing traffic.
>>    But in  ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5), it says
>> "ingress_policing_rate: Maximum rate for data received on this interface,
>> in kbps. Data received faster than this rate isdropped. Set to 0 (the
>> default) to disable policing.", which means the incoming traffic.
>>    Is there any error?
>>
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please stop dropping the mailing list.
>>>
>>> You can use "policing".  See ingress_policing_rate and
>>> ingress_policing_burst in the Interface table in
>>> ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5).
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:31:16PM +0800, 张锦成 wrote:
>>> >  http://openvswitch.org/support/config-cookbooks/qos-rate-limiting/
>>> > You can look at the website above, it use commands to control the
>>> outgoing
>>> > traffic of VMs.
>>> > I wonder whether  we can control the incoming traffic of VMs by using
>>> > commands or  in some simple ways?
>>> > Could you give me an example or website to learn how to do this?
>>> > Thanks very much, I really need your help.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > The same way.  In one case you set up flows based on the input port,
>>> in
>>> > > the other case you set up flows based on the port to which they are
>>> > > directed.
>>> > >
>>> > > The "resubmit" action can be useful to reduce the number of flows
>>> needed
>>> > > in complicated cases.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:21:07PM +0800, 张锦成 wrote:
>>> > > > Thx for your answer.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Could you tell me how to do this?
>>> > > > I know that we can control the outgoing traffic of VMs by using
>>> open
>>> > > > vsitch, but how to control the incoming traffic of VMs.by using
>>> open
>>> > > > vswitch?
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:43:18PM +0800, 张锦成 wrote:
>>> > > > > > I wonder whether we can control the incoming traffic of VMs by
>>> using
>>> > > open
>>> > > > > > vswitch?
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > Yes.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Jincheng Zhang
>>> > > > Dept. of Computer Science&Technology
>>> > > > Tsinghua University
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Jincheng Zhang
>>> > Dept. of Computer Science&Technology
>>> > Tsinghua University
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jincheng Zhang
>> Dept. of Computer Science&Technology
>> Tsinghua University
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Jincheng Zhang
> Dept. of Computer Science&Technology
> Tsinghua University
>
>


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Jincheng Zhang
Dept. of Computer Science&Technology
Tsinghua University
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