Add new --max-backoff option to secchan and switch programs.

[openvswitch] / secchan / secchan.8.in

diff --git a/secchan/secchan.8.in b/secchan/secchan.8.in
index b1826b9afcea3a2a3e2510849b8601a16c0bae7b..8cf8ee8b4b4e7e65de8987e9be0a61cc642cd232 100644 (file)
--- a/secchan/secchan.8.in
+++ b/secchan/secchan.8.in
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ more information about in-band control).
 As a result, when both \fB--fail=open\fR and in-band control are not
 in use, this option has no effect.
 
+.TP
+\fB--max-backoff=\fIsecs\fR
+Sets the maximum time between attempts to connect to the controller to
+\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.
+
 .TP
 \fB-l\fR, \fB--listen=\fImethod\fR
 Configures the switch to additionally listen for incoming OpenFlow