VDE_AUTOLINK(1)

✨ VDE_AUTOLINK ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is the manual page for vde_autolink — the lil tool that automatically creates and maintains vde connections. yes, automatically. yes, it maintains them. it's giving set-it-and-forget-it energy and we are obsessed 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

vde_autolink — automatically create and maintain vde connections

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, here's everything it takes. read it slow, no skimming bestie, there's a [*] situation later and it matters 👑

• -h, --help — displays this help. the "hello what do u do" button, iconic
• -f, --rcfile — configuration file. this one overrides /etc/vde_autolink.rc and ~/.vde_autolinkrc, so if ur config isn't doing what u want… it's probably this one winning the argument 😭
• -d, --daemon — daemonizes vde_autolink once it's run. bye girl, you're on ur own now ✈️
• -p, --pidfile PIDFILE — writes the pid of the daemon to PIDFILE
• -M, --mgmt SOCK — path of the management UNIX socket
• --mgmtmode MODE — management UNIX socket access mode (octal)
• -s, --sock — [*] attach to this vde_switch socket
• -S, --switchmgmt — [*] attach to this vde_switch management socket

and the key to the whole thing:

[*] == Required option! 🚨 like, actually required. not a suggestion. not a vibe. required. periodt.

🫠 the part where the page repeats itself

not me noticing the manpage says all of that AGAIN 💀 it's literally duplicated below, word for word, and honestly? slay, consistency. we're keeping it exactly as it came, because the facts do not change just because the page is a little extra 🙈 here it is, verbatim:

[*] == Required option!  -h, --help                 Display this
help -f, --rcfile               Configuration file (overrides
/etc/vde_autolink.rc and ~/.vde_autolinkrc) -d, --daemon
Daemonize vde_autolink once run -p, --pidfile PIDFILE      Write
pid of daemon to PIDFILE -M, --mgmt SOCK            Path of the
management UNIX socket

• --mgmtmode MODE — management UNIX socket access mode (octal)
• -s, --sock — [*] attach to this vde_switch socket
• -S, --switchmgmt — [*] attach to this vde_switch management socket

[*] == Required option! (yes again, she said it twice, she means it twice 💀)

🎀 NOTICE 🎀

okay important PSA bestie, do NOT get it twisted:

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").

same four letters, completely different girls. the vibe check said ❌ not the same. iykyk 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• vde_switch(1)
• vde_plug(1)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>.

vde_autolink is a VDE component by Luca Bigliardi.

and that's the whole page bestie, u ate it, ur basically a vde_autolink main character now ⭐ this lil treasure is vde_autolink 2.2.0-pre1, dated November 2007 — vintage, honestly. now go attach to a socket. required option. no cap. 💖✨🎀