[5318] Updated User's Guide with the information about connection timeouts.

Also, included a note about removal of the 64kB command restrictions.

diff --git a/doc/guide/ctrl-channel.xml b/doc/guide/ctrl-channel.xml
index 5a9ce5bc73f5222b8ce323d278534b60b445044f..9e64e53f97547c84f3ae2a4900f3913543e65a87 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guide/ctrl-channel.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/ctrl-channel.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,20 @@
     it on its own.
     </para>
 
+    <para>Control connections over both HTTP and unix domain sockets are
+    guarded with timeouts. The default timeout value is set to 10s
+    and is not configurable. The timeout configuration will be
+    implemented in the future.
+    </para>
+
+    <note>
+      <simpara>Kea 1.2.0 release and earlier had a limitation of 64kB
+      on the maximum size of a command and a response sent over the unix
+      domain socket. This limitation has been removed after Kea 1.2.0
+      release.
+      </simpara>
+    </note>
+
     <section id="ctrl-channel-syntax">
     <title>Data Syntax</title>
     <para>Communication over the control channel is conducted using JSON