With newer versions of OVS, this allows us to set up a switch
with a single OVS command (if reconnectms is zero.) If reconnectms
is specified, then it slows things down slightly (but not much.)

Eventually we should implement true batch shutdown.
In the mean time, we just ignore it. Note there's no good
way that I know of for a subclass to remove a superclass
method, so we changed the protocol a bit to require a return
value of True.

Note that this also changes the way that links are deleted;
the reason is that the batch shutdown doesn't currently delete
the links, but OVSSwitch.stop() does. We may wish to revisit
this in the future.

It makes sense to follow Open vSwitch's lead here.
OVS 2.3 enables OpenFlow 1.0 through 1.3 by default.
OVS 2.0 has incomplete support for 1.3, but you can enable
it with protocols=OpenFlow13

For OVS versions 1.9 or earlier, this setting is ignored.

Unfortunately disabling IPv6 via sysctl doesn't actually
disable it on all of the interfaces by default. Disabling
it via grub disables it entirely in the VM.

Helps with #454

Also report connected in standalone/bridge mode

Fixes #460

Conflicts:
	mininet/node.py

Basically no changes except for whitespace and satisfying pep8.

(Also untabbed comment lines, flagged by emacs et al.)

Future versions of pylint will allow this to be disabled
in the file itself, so we can drop the limit back to
1500 or something more reasonable!!

Maybe this is better - maybe not. ;-p