FILIUS(1)

📦 version 2.13.0, in debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 FILIUS — the educational network simulator, bestie edition 🦋

okay so real talk, filius is short for Filius, and it's literally an educational network simulator. That's the whole vibe. Welcome to the group chat. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

filius [options] [project.fls]

like. that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this manual page documents briefly the filius program — hi, hello, that's what we're doing here, documenting. 🫶

filius is an educational program to simulate networking technologies like Ethernet, TCP/IP as well as various services and applications. no cap. it's giving "learn networking without unplugging your actual router and crying." 🔥

It offers network components like desktops, servers, switches and routers. ✨ So you assemble a whole little network — the way that you just drag things around and build an entire topology — and after assembling a network, the setup can be simulated and saved as a project.fls (zip archive) file. 🗂️ iconic behaviour honestly.

not me building an entire enterprise network in a zip file. 💀

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

The program offers the following options:

  • -h, --help — Show a summary of options. your little "wait what do I do" button, we love her. 💖
  • -l — Activate logging to the log file. 📝
  • -n — Activate the native look and feel graphical user interface. she's wearing her native fit, periodt. 👑
  • -r <arg> — Multiplication factor to adapt the round-trip-time of the simulated network: 1 (default) up to 5. so like, how slow do you want the vibes to be. 🐌✨
  • -s — Adapt UI for small screen resolutions (less than 1024x768). tiny screen gang, this one's for you. 🙈
  • -v — Activate verbose logging. she will tell you everything. 😭
  • -w, --wd <arg> — Working directory of the program. Defaults to ~/.filius/. that's her home, that's where she lives. 🏠💜

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was written by Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). absolute legend, we stan. 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes. this was FILIUS(1) from July 2023, straight from the User Commands section — ty for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💅💖🧚

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