VDE_PCAPPLUG(1)

💖 VDE_PCAPPLUG(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for vde_pcapplug — it's the Virtual Distributed Ethernet libpcap cable and she is lowkey iconic. pull up a chair, we're doing this together 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vde_pcapplug [OPTION]... interface

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like. vde_pcapplug is a plug, right? And you plug her into a VDE switch. That's the whole vibe. 💅

Everything that gets caught by the plug? Injected into interface. And everything coming off of interface? Sent into the switch. It's giving two-way street. It's giving bridge energy. No cap. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -p, --port=portnum — you get to pick which port of the switch to use, main character behavior fr. If you don't specify this option, the switch just assigns the first available unused port (if there even is one, no promises). Fun fact: you can connect several cables to the same switch port — and in that case all those cables work concurrently. Which means a packet can end up duplicated, BUT no ARP table loops get generated, so we're chill. This is useful when vde is used for mobility. Also several physical interfaces can be used at a time during handoffs to prevent hichups in connectivity. 🧚
• -g, --group=group — sets the group ownership of the communication socket. Real talk: for security, when more than one person wants to share a switch, it's better to use a unix group to own the comm sockets so the network traffic cannot be sniffed. protect the girls 🔒✨
• -m, --mod=octal-mode — octal chmod like permissions for the comm sockets. yes queen, control the perms.
• -s, --sock=socket — specify the UNIX socket to be used by local programs for joining the VDE. The default value is "/tmp/vde.ctl". write that down bestie 📝
• -d, --daemon — start vde_plug2tap as a background process. (yes it says vde_plug2tap, that's literally what the page says, i don't make the rules 💀)
• -P, --pidfile=pidfile — put the process ID of vde_plug2tap in pidfile. Can be used with --daemon to store the PID for future killing. storing it for later. for the plot. 😌
• -h, --help — show a brief help. baby's first flag, we love her 🌈

⚠️ 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"). different vde. same letters. tragic honestly 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

vde_switch(1), vde_plug(1), vdeq(1), dpipe(1).

iykyk — go read those next, they're all part of the family 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> — shoutout to the founder, king behavior 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and plug responsibly 💖✨

this was Virtual Distributed Ethernet, dated August 20, 2008, and honestly? she ate. periodt. 🎀🦋💅