I think this is what I was looking for:

https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/35498/ 
<https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/35498/>

But it’s not in lithium.

Thanks,
Alexis
> On Apr 18, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Alexis de Talhouët <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Shuva,
> 
> I think it does answer my question.
> 
> What you’re saying is once the switch-idle-timeout is reached, OFJ will send 
> an 
> SwitchIdleEvent to OFP, that will result in an ECHO_REQUEST to the switch, 
> with a timeout of 2 seconds.
> If the ODL doesn’t hear from the switch within this timeout, the connection 
> is shut
> down.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexis
> 
>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Shuva Jyoti Kar <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Alexis,
>>  
>> as I understand from the code, switch idle timeout specifies the amount of 
>> time that has to elapse, after which a
>> SwitchIdleEvent message is sent upstream – notifying OpenFlow Plugin about 
>> idleness of a switch. On first detection of
>> Idle state the ofplugin sends an echo request downstream and waits max for 
>> 2000 ms for an echo-reply,( missing which
>> It puts the connection as down),thereafter every 2 secs the echo-request and 
>> reply is exchanged.
>>  
>> Now setting the switch-idle-timeout will be dependent on the type of 
>> use-case that you are  putting ofplugin. In case
>> the application tries to stress-test the plugin by pumping millions of flows 
>> per sec,we can increase the number,  to
>> prevent the echo_request being lost behind lots of flow_mods resulting in 
>> connection drop/flap.
>>  
>> Did that answer your question ?
>>  
>> Thanks
>> Shuva
>> From: [email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> [mailto:[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of 
>> Alexis de Talhouët
>> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 8:23 PM
>> To: [email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: [openflowplugin-dev] Switch idle timeout
>>  
>> Hello openflowplugin-dev,
>>  
>> I would like to understand better the usage of switch-idle-timeout [0].
>>  
>> I thought that was the timeout after which the switch was considered 
>> unreachable
>> by ODL, resulting on putting down the connection, although I’ve seen here[1] 
>> that 
>> the ECHO_REPLY_TIMEOUT was 2 seconds, so if the ODL doesn’t here from the
>> switch after 2 seconds the ECHO_REQUEST was sent, then it put down the 
>> connection.
>>  
>> Could you shed some light regarding how to properly setup switch idle 
>> timeout?
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Alexis
>>  
>> [0]: 
>> https://github.com/opendaylight/openflowplugin/blob/stable/lithium/openflowplugin-controller-config/src/main/resources/initial/42-openflowplugin-new.xml#l50
>>  
>> <https://github.com/opendaylight/openflowplugin/blob/stable/lithium/openflowplugin-controller-config/src/main/resources/initial/42-openflowplugin-new.xml#l50>
>> [1]: 
>> https://github.com/opendaylight/openflowplugin/blob/stable/lithium/openflowplugin-impl/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/openflowplugin/impl/connection/listener/SystemNotificationsListenerImpl.java#l37
>>  
>> <https://github.com/opendaylight/openflowplugin/blob/stable/lithium/openflowplugin-impl/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/openflowplugin/impl/connection/listener/SystemNotificationsListenerImpl.java#l37>

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