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¶
This manual page documents briefly the
uml_switch program.
This manual page was written for the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
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 will listen for connections on a pair of UNIX domain sockets, and forward
packets between clients which connect to them.
OPTIONS¶
- -unix control_socket data_socket
- Listen on the specified pair of sockets, instead of the defaults.
- -hub
- Act like a hub. This means that 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.
- -tap tap device
- Connect the switch to a dynamically created tap device on the host
- -compat-v0
- Specify control protocol version 0 compatibility.
- -daemon
- Run in the background as a daemon.
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.
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.