[ovs-discuss] OVS - Change Interface Speed

Tue May 5 16:48:30 UTC 2015

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 03:16:02PM +0530, Bakshi Gulam wrote:
> Using ethtool, I got that my driver for virtual interfaces created by OVS
> is "veth". I tried changing the veth driver's speed using ethtool. But it
> says "operation not supported". Can anyone please tell me how to change the
> speed of veth driver so that OVS advertises new speed?

A veth is a software interface, so it doesn't have a meaningful speed.