uml_switch1
Switch daemon for user-mode linux
Usage
uml_switch [-unix
control_socket
data_socket]
[-hub]
[-tap
tun
device]
[-compat-v0]
[-daemon]
Overview
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.
Releases
12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 6 times.
-compat-v0 since Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
-daemon since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).