LIBVDEPLUG_NULL(1)

💖 LIBVDEPLUG_NULL 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for libvdeplug_null — it's a whole network terminator plug and honestly? she's the moment. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

libvdeplug_null — network terminator plug 🕳️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

libvdeplug_null.so

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this is a libvdeplug module that implements a networking sink/terminator. Think of it as the void, but make it fashion. 💅

This module of libvdeplug4 can be used in any program that supports vde, like vde_plug, kvm, qemu, user-mode-linux and virtualbox. she plays well with literally everyone, we love a social queen 👑

The vde_plug_url syntax of this module goes a lil something like this:

null://

And here's the tea, bestie: this plug does not generate any networking traffic, and all the packets sent to this plug get dropped. 🗑️✨ Every single one. Straight into the void. She's not ghosting you, she's just built different — the packets go in, and then... nothing. Silence. Iconic behaviour honestly.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

This command creates a switch (and lowkey important detail: without the null plug, the command vde_plug adds the stream stdin/stdout as a node of the switch). So the null plug is what keeps your stdin/stdout out of the switch, periodt.

vde_plug null:// switch://tmp/myswitch

💀 NOTICE 💀

Virtual Distributed Ethernet is not related in any way with www.vde.com ("Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik" i.e. the German "Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies").

Like. Different vde. Same letters, zero relation. Don't @ us. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• vde_plug(1)

that's the whole page bestie, go forth and terminate some networks (responsibly!!) 💖🫶

Virtual Distributed Ethernet — April 30, 2017 🎀 mwah, ty for reading, stan libvdeplug_null 💜