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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.
UML_SWITCH(1)