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DHCP6C(8) | System Manager's Manual | DHCP6C(8) |
NAME¶
dhcp6c
— DHCPv6
client daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
dhcp6c |
[-c configfile]
[-Ddfi ] [-p
pid-file] [-P
profile] interface
[interfaces...] |
DESCRIPTION¶
dhcp6c
works as a DHCPv6 client and gets
information from DHCPv6 servers to configure the specified
interface. Multiple interfaces
can be specified separated by spaces or tabs, in which case
dhcp6c
will work on all the interfaces
simultaneously.
The command line options are:
-c
configfile- Use configfile as the configuration file.
-d
- Print debugging messages.
-D
- Even more debugging information is printed.
-f
- Foreground mode (useful when debugging). Although
dhcp6c
usually prints warning, debugging, or error messages to syslog(8), it prints the messages to standard error if this option is specified. -i
- Info-req mode. In this mode, stateless DHCPv6 is executed with the
following configuration, and the obtained info is written to stdout. After
this output,
dhcp6c
is terminated. (suits for a use in shell-script etc).interface (interface given in the argument) { information-only; script (a script which displays the received information to stdout); };
Since the configuration is internally generated, you cannot provide a configuration in this mode. If you want to have different actions for the stateless DHCPv6 information, you should write an appropriate configuration and invoke
dhcp6c
without this option. -p
pid-file- Use pid-file to dump the process ID of
dhcp6c
. -P
profile- Use the given profile defined in the
dhcp6c
configuration file for interfaces which do not have a specific configuration.
The program will daemonize itself on invocation unless the
-f
or -i
option is
specified.
Upon receipt of the SIGHUP
or
SIGTERM
signals, dhcp6c
will
remove all stateful resources from the system. In the former case the daemon
will then reinvoke itself, while it will stop running in the latter case. In
either case, dhcp6c
will send DHCPv6 Release
messages to release resources assigned from servers.
FILES¶
- /var/run/dhcp6c.pid
- is the default file that contains pid of the currently running
dhcp6c
. - /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.conf
- is the default configuration file.
- /var/lib/dhcpv6/dhcp6c_duid
- is the file to store the client's DUID.
Configuration Script¶
When dhcp6c
receives a reply message, it
will invoke a supplementary configuration script specified in the
dhcp6c.conf(5) file. The daemon will provide the script
with configuration parameters as environment variables, which include:
REASON
- The reason why the script is invoked. As of this writing, the value is always "NBI" and thus meaningless.
new_domain_name_servers
- A list of available DNS servers, each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white space character.
new_domain_name
- A list of DNS names, which provides DNS name search path.
new_ntp_servers
- A list of available NTP servers, each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white space character.
new_sip_servers
- A list of available SIP server addresses, each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white space character.
new_sip_name
- A list of SIP server domain names.
new_nis_servers
- A list of available NIS server addresses, each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white space character.
new_nis_name
- A list of NIS domain names.
new_nisp_servers
- A list of available NIS+ server addresses, each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white space character.
new_nisp_name
- A list of NIS+ domain names.
new_bcmcs_servers
- A list of available BCMCS server addresses, each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white space character.
new_bcmcs_name
- A list of BCMCS server domain names.
Note that the daemon does not always provide all the parameters. It sets an environment variable only when the corresponding configuration parameter is provided by the DHCPv6 server.
SEE ALSO¶
daemon(3), dhcp6c.conf(5), dhcp6s(8)
Ralph Droms, Editor, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6), RFC 3315, 2003.
HISTORY¶
The dhcp6c
command first appeared in
WIDE/KAME IPv6 protocol stack kit.
BUGS¶
dhcp6c
is incomplete and violates DHCPv6
protocol spec, in several aspects. In particular, temporary address
assignment is intentionally omitted.
Information Refresh Time Option is not recognized in Info-req
mode, since dhcp6c
terminates after it receives a
REPLY message.
September 12, 1999 | KAME |