NAME¶

libvdeplug_null - network terminator plug

SYNOPSIS¶

libvdeplug_null.so

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a libvdeplug module implementing a networking sink/terminator.

This module of libvdeplug4 can be used in any program supporting vde like vde_plug, kvm, qemu, user-mode-linux and virtualbox.

The vde_plug_url syntax of this module is the following:

This plug does not generate any networking traffic and all the packets sent to this plug get dropped.

EXAMPLES¶

This command creates a switch (without the null plug the command vde_plug adds the stream stdin/stdout as a node of the switch). vde_plug null:// switch://tmp/myswitch

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").

SEE ALSO¶

vde_plug(1),