added persistence option to HostWithPrivateDirs. also attached mount namespaces when mnexec -a is specified

Add a timeout parameter to the pingAll command

OVS switch connect to controllers using protocols other than TCP like SSL.

    net.addController( 'c0', protocol='ssl' )

This now allows OVS to connect to a controller using SSL.  The default of protocol is 'tcp'
as it currently is.

Enable batch startup/shutdown of OVS

Not perfect, but it moves us forward at least.

Netstat: do not resolve addresses

Ping: packet loss should be a float

 Uploading MiniEdit 2.1.0.7.1

    OVS install Ubuntu packages

IVSSwitch: wait for ivs to terminate before tearing down node

persistent command history

This was a problem when running IVS in a container. IVS would begin the process
of closing controller connections on receiving SIGTERM, but often mininet would
have continued on and removed the control network interface from the container
before it could send the FIN. The controller wouldn't know the connection had
been closed until it timed out much later.

Saves readline history to ~/.mininet_history.

(pending) mnexec: mount sysfs in each container

checking with non-numeric characters.