LIBVDEPLUG_VXVDE(1)

💖 LIBVDEPLUG_VXVDE(1) — the vdeplug module that gets you into vxvde networks 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're doing a General Commands Manual entry and it's lowkey iconic. this is libvdeplug_vxvde, the module you need if you wanna slide into a vde_switch based network. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

libvdeplug_vxvde — vdeplug module for vde_switch based networks

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

libvdeplug_vxvde.so

like. that's it. that's the whole synopsis. a single shared object file carrying the entire vibe. she's serving .so and nothing else 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this right here is the libvdeplug module to join vxvde networks. and what's vxvde, you ask? it's a distributed implementation of virtual networks. the way that means you do NOT need extra processes like virtual switches. no daemons. no babysitting. just vibes. 🔥

this module of libvdeplug4 can be dropped into literally any program that supports vde, like:

• vde_plug
• kvm
• qemu
• user-mode-linux
• virtualbox

she's versatile, she's flexible, she fits everywhere. main character energy fr fr 👑

the vde_plug_url syntax of this module goes like this:

vxvde://[multicast_addr][/OPTION][/OPTION]

and here's the tea: if multicast_addr is omitted, libvdeplug_vxvde uses the default addresses:

• 239.0.0.1 for IPv4
• ff05:56de::1 for IPv6

defaults! she'll pick for you if you don't wanna pick. no cap. ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

every single one, bestie, we're not skipping a thing:

• v4 — use IPv4
• v6 — use IPv6
• port=PORT — define the multicast port (default value 14789)
• vni=VNI — define the virtual network identifier (default value 1). fun fact: a group name can be used as VNI, and in that case the vni is the group id. iykyk 🫶
• ttl=TTL — define the time-to-live (default value 1).
• grp=group_name_or_number — Set the VNI and the last three bytes of the IP address to the group id.
• hashsize=HASHSIZE — set the size of the hash table for packet switching
• expiretime=EXPIRETIME — set the maximum age in seconds of valid packet switching entries
• if=INTERFACE — set the (real) network interface to use.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

first one, a classic:

vxvde://239.0.0.1

This vde_plug_url refers to the vxvde network defined on the multicast address 239.0.0.1, vni=1.

and now the group-chat collab version — Programs using

vxvde://ff15::3/port=12345/vni=42

join the same vxvde network defined by the multicast address ff15::1, port 12345, vni is 42.

see how they all end up in the same place?? it's giving "we all showed up to the same party" 🎉✨

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👑 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").

bestie. seriously. different vde. do not @ them. do not confuse them. they are NOT us and we are NOT them 💀

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• vde_plug(1),

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Virtual Distributed Ethernet · August 23, 2016 — that's the source, the version and the date, mwah, sending you off with a kiss 🫶💖✨