[Lxc-users] Any one using OVS as the network module, please help

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Ryan Young (ryanyoung.soloy at gmail.com):
> hi all,
> I setup a topology with two lxc containers on a host and apply OVS as the
> network module. In my test I cannot apply QoS policies to the two
> containers( for example,  ovs-vsctl set Interface pbond0
> ingress_policing_rate=100000). It is said that OVS use linux TC for the
> ratelimit function ( the module is compiled in the kernel), and LXC
> container does not have its own network stack,

lxc containers have their own l2 stack.

> is that the reason the QoS
> did not take affect? How to apply ratelimit to the containers?
> 
> Any suggestion would be appreciated.

I've used ovs gre tunnels to connect containers on different hosts, but
have not played with rate limiting them, sorry.

-serge