MPE(4)

💖 MPE(4) — MPLS Provider Edge 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the mpe(4) manual page! it's giving kernel interfaces, but make it cute. no cap, all the facts are still here.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mpe — MPLS Provider Edge. literally the name, slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pseudo-device mpe

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The mpe interface is a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Provider Edge pseudo-device used to enter and leave an MPLS domain. highkey iconic.

You can create an mpe interface at runtime with the ifconfig mpeN create command, or by setting up a hostname.if(5) configuration file for netstart(8). The interface itself can be configured with ifconfig(8); go read its manual page for more info, bestie. periodt.

💅 IOCTLS 💅

The following ioctl(2) calls are specific to mpe, mpip(4) and mpw(4) interfaces:

• SIOCSETLABEL — Encapsulate packets entering this interface in MPLS using the specified label.
• SIOCGETLABEL — Report the label that packets entering this interface will be tagged with.
• SIOCDELLABEL — Unset the MPLS label.

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• sysctl(2)
• mpip(4)
• mpw(4)
• hostname.if(5)
• ifconfig(8)
• ldpd(8)
• netstart(8)

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

The mpe device first appeared in OpenBSD 4.4. a whole era.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The mpe driver was written by Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@openbsd.org>. thank you for your service, king.

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