[ovs-discuss] Rate limiting on Openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 04:32:21PM +0200, Richard Neumann wrote:
> We want to limit ingress packet rates based on the physical interface
> they are coming from. We have an OpenvSwitch with three physical
> interfaces. Packets are incoming though two of them and forwarded to the
> third interface. We want to slice the bandwidth offered by the third
> interface between the other two interfaces (ingress interfaces). We
> would like to do that based on the interface (switch port number) or
> source IP address. Is there any way to do it using OpenvSwitch Is it
> possible attach other Linux components to the OpenvSwitch to do the
> limiting like tc?

You can use tc with Open vSwitch.