1KEA-DHCP6(8) Kea KEA-DHCP6(8)
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6 kea-dhcp6 - DHCPv6 server in Kea
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9 kea-dhcp6 [-v] [-V] [-W] [-d] [-c config-file] [-t config-file]
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13 The kea-dhcp6 daemon provides the DHCPv6 server implementation.
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19 Display the version.
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22 Display the extended version.
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25 Display the configuration report.
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28 Enable the debug mode with extra verbosity.
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31 Configuration file including the configuration for DHCPv6 server.
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35 Check the configuration file and report the first error if any.
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41 Port number (1-65535) on which the server listens. This is useful
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45 Kea comes with an extensive Kea User's Guide documentation that covers
46 all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installation,
47 configuration, configuration examples and many more. Kea also features
48 a Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea can print
49 with a brief description for each of them. Both documents are typically
50 available in various formats (txt, html, pdf) with your Kea
51 distribution. Kea user documentation is availalable on-line at
52 https://kb.isc.org/docs/kea-administrator-reference-manual .
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54 Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide. Its on-line
55 version is available at https://jenkins.isc.org/job/Kea_doc/doxygen/.
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57 Kea project website is available at: https://kea.isc.org.
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60 There are two mailing lists available for Kea project. kea-users
61 (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users, while kea-dev
62 (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea developers, prospective
63 contributors and other advanced users. Both lists are available at
64 http://lists.isc.org. The community provides best effort type of
65 support on both of those lists.
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67 ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See
68 https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details.
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71 The b10-dhcp6 daemon was first coded in June 2011 by Tomek Mrugalski.
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73 Kea became a standalone server and the BIND10 framework was removed.
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77 kea-dhcp4(8), kea-dhcp-ddns(8), kea-ctrl-agent(8), kea-admin(8),
78 keactrl(8), kea-netconf(8), perfdhcp(8), kea-lfc(8), Kea
79 Administrator's Guide.
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82 The Kea software has been written by a number of engineers working for
83 ISC: Tomek Mrugalski, Stephen Morris, Marcin Siodelski, Thomas
84 Markwalder, Francis Dupont, Jeremy C. Reed, Wlodek Wencel and Shawn
85 Routhier. That list is roughly in the chronological order in which the
86 authors made their first contribution. For a complete list of authors
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90 Copyright © 2011-2018 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
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94ISC Kea 1.5.0 Dec 14, 2018 KEA-DHCP6(8)