---
name: "libvdeplug_pcap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libvdeplug-pcap"
version: "0.1.0-3+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/libvdeplug_pcap"
---

# libvdeplug\_pcap(1)

vdeplug module for vde\_switch based networks

## NAME

**libvdeplug\_pcap** - vdeplug module for vde\_switch based networks

## SYNOPSIS

libvdeplug\_pcap.so

## DESCRIPTION

This libvdeplug module interconnects a client to an interface using the packet capture library (pcap): all the data that is received by this plug is injected into interface and everything captured from that interface is sent to the client.

Please notice that the pcap library captures and injects packets on the net, packets sent by the host are not captured, injected packets are not received by the host. So several clients using libvdeplug\_pcap on the same interface of the same host do not communicate among them (nor they communicate with the host).

This module of libvdeplug4 can be used in any program supporting vde like **vde\_plug**, **vdens**, **kvm**, **qemu**, **user-mode-linux** and **virtualbox**.

- The vde\_plug\_url syntax of this module is the following:

  **pcap://***interface\_name*

## EXAMPLE

**vde\_plug vde:// pcap://eth0**

connects the standard vde\_switch to the interface eth0.

## 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\_plug**(1)](/vde_plug/1.md), [**vdens**(1)](/vdens/1.md)

## AUTHOR

VirtualSquare. Project leader: Renzo Davoli