vswitchd: Document how to disable inactivity probes.

This has always been implemented but it was not documented until now.

Reported-by: Alex Yip <alex@nicira.com>

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 39125c3..bc0f3f6 100644 (file)
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ The following additional people are mentioned in commit logs as having
 provided helpful bug reports or suggestions.
 
 Aaron M. Ucko           ucko@debian.org
+Alex Yip                alex@nicira.com
 Alexey I. Froloff       raorn@altlinux.org
 Brad Hall               brad@nicira.com
 Brandon Heller          brandonh@stanford.edu

diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index a16ddfb..7e58421 100644 (file)
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -1770,7 +1770,8 @@
         number of seconds, it will send a probe.  If a response is not
         received for the same additional amount of time, Open vSwitch
         assumes the connection has been broken and attempts to reconnect.
-        Default is implementation-specific.
+        Default is implementation-specific.  A value of 0 disables
+        inactivity probes.
       </column>
     </group>
 
@@ -2023,6 +2024,7 @@
         will send a probe.  If a response is not received for the same
         additional amount of time, Open vSwitch assumes the connection has been
         broken and attempts to reconnect.  Default is implementation-specific.
+        A value of 0 disables inactivity probes.
       </column>
     </group>