[pox-dev] Port mode or Link capacity

[Giannis Sapountzis]

Thanks for confirming that Murphy.

On Nov 11, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Murphy McCauley <murphy.mccauley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unless you want to try measuring it (probably not easy), I think you're pretty much stuck with what the switch tells you.  Or at least *I* can't think of anything else to do about it.
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> -- Murphy
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> On Nov 11, 2013, at 4:44 AM, Giannis Sapountzis <johnsub1985 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone.
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>> Is there any way to get the current operation mode of a port or the link capacity when using mininet and OVS switches ?
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>> On features reply you get the port status, which is always 10GB-Copper, as it is the one which is hardcoded in the veth pair when creating the Mininet topology, even if you use the TCLink to set link bandwidth to something different. 
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>> With that in mind i am wondering if there is a way to get the "real" value or is it completely on what underlying switch you are using?
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>> Thank you.
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>> /John
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