NAME¶
dhcp6s —
DHCPv6 server
SYNOPSIS¶
dhcp6s |
[-c
configfile]
[-Ddf]
[-k
ctlkeyfile]
[-p
ctlport]
[-P
pid-file]
interface |
DESCRIPTION¶
dhcp6s replies to DHCPv6 client as DHCPv6 server.
dhcp6s can give the following information to clients.
- IPv6 prefixes for the
requesting site
- Non-temporary IPv6
addresses
- A list of the DNS server
addresses
- DNS Domain Search List
- A list of the NTP server
addresses
- A list of the SIP server
addresses
- SIP Server domain name
- A list of the NIS server
addresses
- NIS domain name
- A list of the NIS+ server
addresses
- NIS+ domain name
- A list of the BCMCS server
addresses
- BCMCS Server domain
name
Command line options are as below:
- -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
dhcp6s usually prints warning, debugging, or error
messages to syslog(8), it prints the messages to
standard error if this option is specified.
- -k
ctlkeyfile
- Use ctlkeyfile to store the shared
secret to authenticate the communication with dhcp6ctl.
The default file name used when unspecified is
/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6sctlkey. The default name is
intentionally same as that for dhcp6ctl so that the
server and the control command can share the file when
dhcp6ctl controls the server on the same node, which
should be the typical case.
- -p
ctlport
- Use ctlport as the port number
listening on to communicate with dhcp6ctl.
- -P
pid-file
- Use pid-file to dump the process ID
of dhcp6s.
FILES¶
- /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6s.conf
- is the default configuration file.
- /var/lib/dhcpv6/dhcp6s_duid
- is the default file to store the server's DUID.
- /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6sctlkey
- is the default key file to communicate with the control
command. See dhcp6ctl(8) for the file format.
- /var/run/dhcp6s.pid
- is the default file that contains pid of the currently
running dhcp6s.
SEE ALSO¶
dhcp6s.conf(5),
dhcp6ctl(8),
dhcp6c(8)
Ralph Droms, Editor,
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
(DHCPv6), RFC 3315,
2003.
HISTORY¶
The
dhcp6s command first appeared in WIDE/KAME IPv6 protocol
stack kit.
The
-n dnsserv command-line option was
obsoleted by introducing a configuration file.
BUGS¶
dhcp6s is incomplete and violates DHCPv6 protocol spec, in
several aspects. To name a few:
- it does not assign temporary IPv6 addresses (nor
will).