vde_autolink(1)

vde_autolink1

Automatically create and maintain vde connections

Overview

-h, --help

Display this help

-f, --rcfile

Configuration file (overrides /etc/vde_autolink.rc and ~/.vde_autolinkrc)

-d, --daemon

Daemonize vde_autolink once run

-p, --pidfile PIDFILE

Write pid of daemon to PIDFILE

-M, --mgmt SOCK

Path of the management UNIX socket

--mgmtmode MODE

Management UNIX socket access mode (octal)

-s, --sock

[*] Attach to this vde_switch socket

-S, --switchmgmt

[*] Attach to this vde_switch management socket

[*] == Required option! -h, --help Display this help -f, --rcfile Configuration file (overrides /etc/vde_autolink.rc and ~/.vde_autolinkrc) -d, --daemon Daemonize vde_autolink once run -p, --pidfile PIDFILE Write pid of daemon to PIDFILE -M, --mgmt SOCK Path of the management UNIX socket

--mgmtmode MODE

Management UNIX socket access mode (octal)

-s, --sock

[*] Attach to this vde_switch socket

-S, --switchmgmt

[*] Attach to this vde_switch management socket

[*] == Required option!

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").

Releases

Unchanged in 10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–Arch

Authors

VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli <[email protected]>.

vde_autolink is a VDE component by Luca Bigliardi

From vde2 2.3.3-10 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.