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.

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