libvdeplug_null(1)

libvdeplug_null1

Network terminator plug

Usage

libvdeplug_null.so

Overview

This is a libvdeplug module implementing a networking sink/terminator.

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

The vde_plug_url syntax of this module is the following:

null://

This plug does not generate any networking traffic and all the packets sent to this plug get dropped.

Examples

This command creates a switch (without the null plug the command vde_plug adds the stream stdin/stdout as a node of the switch). vde_plug null:// switch://tmp/myswitch

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 3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

  1. 11–13

From vdeplug 4.0.1-5.1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.