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NAME
       vde_router - Virtual Distributed Ethernet Router.

SYNOPSIS
       vde_router -c configfile [-d] [-M mgmt_socket] [-m mgmt_mode] [-p
       pidfile]

DESCRIPTION
       A vde_router

OPTIONS
       -d     Daemonize the process and put in background.

       -r configfile
              Parse configuration parameters from configfile at startup

       -M mgmt_socket
              the unix socket where the parameters (interfaces addresses,
              routes, etc.) can be checked and changed runtime. unixterm(1)
              can be used as a remote terminal for wirefilter.

       -m mgmt_mode
              Specify the permission for the access to mgmt_socket

       -p pidfile
              Save the process id to pidfile

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), vdeq(1), unixterm(1), vde_cryptcab(1), wirefilter(1).

AUTHORS
       VDE_ROUTER is a tool by Daniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net>

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

       Red-Black Tree used to implement ARP tables is a free port to userspace
       from the Linux kernel, by Andrea Arcangeli and David Woodhouse.

Virtual Distributed Ethernet   December 16, 2011                 VDE_ROUTER(1)