+.SH "RUNTIME MANAGEMENT COMMANDS"
+\fBovs\-appctl\fR(8) can send commands to a running
+\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR process. The currently supported commands are
+described below. The command descriptions assume an understanding of
+how to configure Open vSwitch, as described in
+\fBovs-vswitchd.conf\fR(5).
+.SS "OVS\-VSWITCHD COMMANDS"
+These commands manage the \fBovs-vswitchd\fR process.
+.IP "\fBvswitchd/reload\fR"
+Reloads the \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR configuration file, as if a
+\fBSIGHUP\fR signal were received. The command completes only after
+reloading is finished, in particular after all datapaths have been
+created and destroyed and ports added and removed as specified by the
+new configuration.
+.SS "BRIDGE COMMANDS"
+These commands manage bridges.
+.IP "\fBfdb/show\fR \fIbridge\fR"
+Lists each MAC address/VLAN pair learned by the specified \fIbridge\fR,
+along with the port on which it was learned and the age of the entry,
+in seconds.
+.SS "BOND COMMANDS"
+These commands manage bonded ports on an Open vSwitch's bridges. To
+understand some of these commands, it is important to understand a
+detail of the bonding implementation called ``MAC hashing.'' Instead
+of directly assigning Ethernet source addresses to slaves, the bonding
+implementation computes a function that maps an 48-bit Ethernet source
+addresses into an 8-bit value (a ``MAC hash'' value). All of the
+Ethernet addresses that map to a single 8-bit value are then assigned
+to a single slave.
+.IP "\fBbond/list\fR"
+Lists all of the bonds, and their slaves, on each bridge.