---
name: "vde_autolink"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vde2"
version: "2.3.3-10"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vde_autolink"
---

# vde\_autolink(1)

automatically create and maintain vde connections

## NAME

vde\_autolink - automatically create and maintain vde connections

## DESCRIPTION

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display this help

- **-f**, **--rcfile**

  Configuration file (overrides /etc/vde\_autolink.rc and ~/.vde\_autolinkrc)

- **-d**, **--daemon**

  Daemonize vde\_autolink once run

- **-p**, **--pidfile** PIDFILE

  Write pid of daemon to PIDFILE

- **-M**, **--mgmt** SOCK

  Path of the management UNIX socket

- **--mgmtmode** MODE

  Management UNIX socket access mode (octal)

- **-s**, **--sock**

  \[\*\] Attach to this vde\_switch socket

- **-S**, **--switchmgmt**

  \[\*\] Attach to this vde\_switch management socket

-

  \[\*\] == Required option! **-h**, **--help**                 Display this help **-f**, **--rcfile**               Configuration file (overrides /etc/vde\_autolink.rc and ~/.vde\_autolinkrc) **-d**, **--daemon**               Daemonize vde\_autolink once run **-p**, **--pidfile** PIDFILE      Write pid of daemon to PIDFILE **-M**, **--mgmt** SOCK            Path of the management UNIX socket

- **--mgmtmode** MODE

  Management UNIX socket access mode (octal)

- **-s**, **--sock**

  \[\*\] Attach to this vde\_switch socket

- **-S**, **--switchmgmt**

  \[\*\] Attach to this vde\_switch management socket

-

  \[\*\] == Required option!

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

## AUTHORS

VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli \<renzo@cs.unibo.it\>.

vde\_autolink is a VDE component by Luca Bigliardi