VDE_PLUG2TAP(1)

💖 VDE_PLUG2TAP(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual era, this is vde_plug2tap and she is literally the moment ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

vde_plug2tap — Virtual Distributed Ethernet plug-to-tap 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vde_plug2tap [OPTION]... tap_name

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so vde_plug2tap is a plug that you plug into a VDE switch, okay? everything that gets caught by the plug gets yeeted straight to the tap interface called tap_name, and everything coming back from that interface gets injected into the switch. it's giving bidirectional, it's giving seamless, we love her 🫶

like, for example:

vde_plug2tap tap4

this connects the default switch (/var/run/vde.ctl) to the tap4 interface. iconic. no notes 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -p, --port=portnum — bestie you can literally pick which port of the switch to use 👑. if you don't specify this option, the switch just assigns the first available unused port (if there even is one, no promises 🙈). and get this — you can connect several cables into the same switch port, and in that case all those cables work concurrently. yes this means a packet can end up duplicated, but no ARP table loops get generated, so it's fine. it's super useful when vde is used for mobility 🧚. several physical interfaces can be used at a time during handoffs, which prevents hiccups in connectivity. slay.
• -g, --group=group — sets the group ownership of the communication socket 🔐. 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 can't get sniffed. protect the vibes, protect the packets 💜
• -m, --mod=octal-mode — octal chmod-style permissions for the comm sockets. very demure, very permissioned 💅
• -s, --sock=socket — specify the UNIX socket that local programs use for joining the VDE 🌈. the default value is "/var/run/vde.ctl". when '-' is used in place of the VDE switch directory, vde_plug2tap works as a plug (see vde_plug(1)). the command:

dpipe vde_plug = ssh remote.machine.org vde_plug2tap -s - tapx

connects the default local switch to a remote tapx interface. remote era, main character energy fr fr 🔥

• -d, --daemon — start vde_plug2tap as a background process 🦋. she's independent now.
• -P, --pidfile=pidfile — put the process ID of vde_plug2tap in pidfile. can be used with --daemon to store the PID for future killing 💀 (okay not killing killing, just like, ending the process, bestie).
• -h, --help — show a brief help 🎀

🚨 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, different girlies, do not confuse them 🙈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

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

💜 AUTHOR 💜

VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> — king behavior, we stan 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, go plug something in and slay 💖✨

Virtual Distributed Ethernet · December 5, 2006 — and that's the sign-off, mwah 💋