1KEA-DHCP4(8)                          Kea                         KEA-DHCP4(8)
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NAME

6       kea-dhcp4 - DHCPv4 server in Kea
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SYNOPSIS

9       kea-dhcp4  [-v]  [-V]  [-W]  [-d] [-c config-file] [-t config-file] [-p
10       server-port-number] [-P client-port-number]
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DESCRIPTION

13       The kea-dhcp4 daemon provides the DHCPv4 server implementation.
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ARGUMENTS

16       The arguments are as follows:
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18       -v     Displays the version.
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20       -V     Displays the extended version.
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22       -W     Displays the configuration report.
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24       -d     Enables the debug mode with extra verbosity.
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26       -c config-file
27              Specifies the configuration file with the configuration for  the
28              DHCPv4  server.  It  may  also contain configuration entries for
29              other Kea services.
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31       -t config-file
32              Checks the configuration file and reports the  first  error,  if
33              any.  Note  that  not  all parameters are completely checked; in
34              particular, service and control channel sockets are not  opened,
35              and hook libraries are not loaded.
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37       -T config-file
38              Checks  the  configuration  file and reports the first error, if
39              any.  It performs extra checks beyond what -t  offers,  such  as
40              establishing  database  connections (for the lease backend, host
41              reservations backend, configuration backend, and  forensic  log‐
42              ging backend), loading hook libraries, parsing hook-library con‐
43              figurations, etc. It does not open UNIX or TCP/UDP sockets,  nor
44              does  it open or rotate files, as any of these actions could in‐
45              terfere with a running process on the same machine.
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47       -p server-port-number
48              Specifies the server port number (1-65535) on which  the  server
49              listens. This is useful for testing purposes only.
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51       -P client-port-number
52              Specifies  the  client port number (1-65535) to which the server
53              responds. This is useful for testing purposes only.
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DOCUMENTATION

56       Kea comes with an extensive Kea  Administrator  Reference  Manual  that
57       covers all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installa‐
58       tion, configuration, configuration examples, and much  more.  Kea  also
59       features  a  Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea
60       can print with a brief description for each of them. Both documents are
61       available in various formats (.txt, .html, .pdf) with the Kea distribu‐
62       tion. The Kea documentation is available at https://kea.readthedocs.io.
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64       Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's  Guide,  available
65       at https://reports.kea.isc.org/dev_guide/.
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67       The Kea project website is available at https://kea.isc.org.
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MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT

70       There  are  two  public  mailing  lists  available for the Kea project.
71       kea-users (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users, while
72       kea-dev  (kea-dev  at  lists.isc.org)  is  intended for Kea developers,
73       prospective contributors, and other  advanced  users.  Both  lists  are
74       available  at https://lists.isc.org. The community provides best-effort
75       support on both of those lists.
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77       ISC   provides   professional   support   for   Kea    services.    See
78       https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details.
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HISTORY

81       The  b10-dhcp4 daemon was first coded in November 2011 by Tomek Mrugal‐
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84       In mid-2014, Kea was decoupled from the BIND 10 framework and became  a
85       standalone  DHCP  server.  The  DHCPv4  server  binary  was  renamed to
86       kea-dhcp4. Kea 1.0.0 was released in December 2015.
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SEE ALSO

89       kea-dhcp6(8), kea-dhcp-ddns(8), kea-ctrl-agent(8), kea-admin(8),  keac‐
90       trl(8), perfdhcp(8), kea-netconf(8), kea-lfc(8), Kea Administrator Ref‐
91       erence Manual.
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AUTHOR

94       Internet Systems Consortium
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97       2019-2023, Internet Systems Consortium
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