controller. After sending the inactivity probe, if no response is
received for an additional \fIsecs\fR seconds, the switch
assumes that the connection has been broken and attempts to reconnect.
-The default is 15 seconds, and the minimum value is 5 seconds.
+The default and the minimum value are both 5 seconds.
When fail-open mode is configured, changing the inactivity probe
interval also changes the interval before entering fail-open mode (see
\fIsecs\fR, which must be at least 1. The actual interval between
connection attempts starts at 1 second and doubles on each failing
attempt until it reaches the maximum. The default maximum backoff
-time is 15 seconds.
+time is 8 seconds.
.TP
\fB-l\fR, \fB--listen=\fImethod\fR
-Configures the switch to additionally listen for incoming OpenFlow
-connections for switch management with \fBovs\-ofctl\fR. The \fImethod\fR
+By default, the switch listens for OpenFlow management connections on a
+Unix domain socket named \fB@RUNDIR@/\fIdatapath\fB.mgmt\fR. This socket
+can be used to perform local OpenFlow monitoring and administration with
+tools such as \fBovs\-ofctl\fR.
+
+This option may be used to override the default listener. The \fImethod\fR
must be given as one of the passive OpenFlow connection methods listed
below. This option may be specified multiple times to listen to
-multiple connection methods.
+multiple connection methods. If a single \fImethod\fR of \fBnone\fR is
+used, no listeners will be created.
.RS
.TP
This option takes effect only when \fB--rate-limit\fR is also specified.
-.SS "Remote Command Execution Options"
-
-.TP
-\fB--command-acl=\fR[\fB!\fR]\fIglob\fR[\fB,\fR[\fB!\fR]\fIglob\fR...]
-Configures the commands that remote OpenFlow connections are allowed
-to invoke using (e.g.) \fBovs\-ofctl execute\fR. The argument is a
-comma-separated sequence of shell glob patterns. A glob pattern
-specified without a leading \fB!\fR is a ``whitelist'' that specifies
-a set of commands that are that may be invoked, whereas a pattern that
-does begin with \fB!\fR is a ``blacklist'' that specifies commands
-that may not be invoked. To be permitted, a command name must be
-whitelisted and must not be blacklisted;
-e.g. \fB--command-acl=up*,!upgrade\fR would allow any command whose name
-begins with \fBup\fR except for the command named \fBupgrade\fR.
-Command names that include characters other than upper- and lower-case
-English letters, digits, and the underscore and hyphen characters are
-unconditionally disallowed.
-
-When the whitelist and blacklist permit a command name, \fBovs\-openflowd\fR
-looks for a program with the same name as the command in the commands
-directory (see below). Other directories are not searched.
-
-.TP
-\fB--command-dir=\fIdirectory\fR
-Sets the directory searched for remote command execution to
-\fBdirectory\fR. The default directory is
-\fB@pkgdatadir@/commands\fR.
+.SS "Datapath Options"
+.
+.IP "\fB\-\-ports=\fIport\fR[\fB,\fIport\fR...]"
+Ordinarily, \fBovs\-openflowd\fR expects the administrator to create
+the specified \fIdatapath\fR and add ports to it externally with a
+utility such as \fBovs\-dpctl\fR. However, the userspace switch
+datapath is implemented inside \fBovs\-openflowd\fR itself and does
+not (currently) have any external interface for \fBovs\-dpctl\fR to
+access. As a stopgap measure, this option specifies one or more ports
+to add to the datapath at \fBovs\-openflowd\fR startup time. Multiple
+ports may be specified as a comma-separated list or by specifying
+\fB\-\-ports\fR multiple times.
+.IP
+See \fBINSTALL.userspace\fR for more information about userspace
+switching.
.SS "Daemon Options"
.so lib/daemon.man
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