vde_router - Virtual Distributed Ethernet Router.

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  NOTICE  SEE ALSO  AUTHORS 

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NAME

vde_router − Virtual Distributed Ethernet Router.

SYNOPSIS

vde_router −c configfile [−d] [−M mgmt_socket] [−m mgmt_mode] [−p pidfile]

DESCRIPTION

A vde_router

OPTIONS

-d

Daemonize the process and put in background.

-r configfile

Parse configuration parameters from configfile at startup

-M mgmt_socket

the unix socket where the parameters (interfaces addresses, routes, etc.) can be checked and changed runtime. unixterm(1) can be used as a remote terminal for wirefilter.

-m mgmt_mode

Specify the permission for the access to mgmt_socket

-p pidfile

Save the process id to pidfile

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_switch(1), vdeq(1), unixterm(1), vde_cryptcab(1), wirefilter(1).

AUTHORS

VDE_ROUTER is a tool by Daniele Lacamera <[email protected]>

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

Red-Black Tree used to implement ARP tables is a free port to userspace from the Linux kernel, by Andrea Arcangeli and David Woodhouse.

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