UML_SWITCH(1)

💖 UML_SWITCH 💖

okay so bestie, this is the General Commands Manual page for uml_switch, and no cap, it's giving "switch daemon for user-mode Linux." Section 1. Group-chat style. Let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

uml_switch — switch daemon for user-mode Linux

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

uml_switch [-unix control_socket data_socket]  [-hub]  [-tap tun device]
[-compat-v0]  [-daemon]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this manual page documents briefly the uml_switch program. Brief queen. She doesn't overexplain, she just vibes ✨

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original program does not have a manual page. Yeah — no manual page, so Debian said "fine, I'll do it myself" and honestly? Iconic 💅

uml_switch is a daemon for managing a virtual network between user-mode Linux systems, with no connection to the host system's network. It's a whole separate little world, fr fr 🌈

It will listen for connections on a pair of UNIX domain sockets, and forward packets between clients which connect to them. That's the whole job. She listens, she forwards. Main character energy 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -unix control_socket data_socket — listen on the specified pair of sockets instead of the defaults. You pick the sockets, she uses them 💖
• -hub — act like a hub. This means packets received will be broadcast over all virtual links. The default is to act as a switch, where packets are only sent to the link matching the destination MAC address of the packet. So: hub = yell it at everyone 📢, switch = whisper it to the right one 🤫
• -tap tap device — connect the switch to a dynamically created tap device on the host 🦋
• -compat-v0 — specify control protocol version 0 compatibility. Old-school mode, respectfully 🫶
• -daemon — run in the background as a daemon. She's not on the main stage, she's backstage running the whole show 💅

not me noticing the SYNOPSIS says tun device and OPTIONS says tap device 🙈 copying both exactly, no edits, periodt

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• linux(1)
• The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html) 📚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

uml_switch was written by Jeff Dike and others. Legends, every one of them 🫡

This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. Legal slay, we love to see it 📜💖

and that's the whole page bestie — the footer on this one is just UML_SWITCH(1), nothing else, no date, no version, just her name at the bottom like a signature 💅✨