[ovs-discuss] Change OVS Advertised Port Speed

Savvas Zannettou zsavvas90 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 11:58:03 UTC 2014


Hi,

Do you know what changes do i have to do in OVS source code so the default
advertised link speed to be 10Mbps for example?

Thanks,
Savvas

On Wed Oct 22 2014 at 4:48:16 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> The message from ethtool probably indicates that the kernel driver
> doesn't support configuring that feature, so there probably isn't any
> way to do it.
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:10:25AM +0200, Savvas Zannettou wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you have any other idea how i can change the advertised port speed of
> > OVS?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Savvas
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Savvas Zannettou wrote:
> > > > I want to change the advertised speed for the OVS Switches that i
> create
> > > > from my mininet. The default value is 10Gbits/s and i want to
> decrease
> > > it.
> > > > Do  you know any way how to achieve that from Mininet Api or any
> other
> > > way
> > > > to get this done?
> > > >
> > > > I tried with ethtool but i get the following error:
> > > > Cannot set new settings: Operation not supported
> > > >   not setting speed
> > >
> > > That probably indicates that the kernel driver doesn't support
> > > configuring that feature, so there probably isn't any way to do it.
> > >
>
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