[\fIoptions\fR] \fIdatabase\fR
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
-A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
-does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
-the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
-that attach to them.
+A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
+does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
+the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
+that attach to them.
.PP
The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the
\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration is
\fB\-\-prune\-timeout=\fIsecs\fR
.
Sets the maximum time between pruning port entries to \fIsecs\fR seconds.
-Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
+Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
that no longer exist. If \fIsecs\fR is zero, then entries are never
pruned. The default prune timeout is 5 seconds.
.
.so lib/common.man
.so lib/leak-checker.man
.
+.SH BUGS
+.
+\fBovs\-brcompatd\fR requires the bridges that it manages to initially
+have no ports listed in their database records when it starts up.
+Otherwise, it may add duplicate ports to bridges.
+.
.SH NOTES
\fBovs\-brcompatd\fR requires the \fBbrcompat_mod.ko\fR kernel module to be
loaded.