1DHCP6S(8)                 BSD System Manager's Manual                DHCP6S(8)
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NAME

4     dhcp6s — DHCPv6 server
5

SYNOPSIS

7     dhcp6s [-c configfile] [-Ddf] [-k ctlkeyfile] [-p ctlport] [-P pid-file]
8            interface
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DESCRIPTION

11     dhcp6s replies to DHCPv6 client as DHCPv6 server.  dhcp6s can give the
12     following information to clients.
13     ·   IPv6 prefixes for the requesting site
14     ·   Non-temporary IPv6 addresses
15     ·   A list of the DNS server addresses
16     ·   DNS Domain Search List
17     ·   A list of the NTP server addresses
18     ·   A list of the SIP server addresses
19     ·   SIP Server domain name
20     ·   A list of the NIS server addresses
21     ·   NIS domain name
22     ·   A list of the NIS+ server addresses
23     ·   NIS+ domain name
24     ·   A list of the BCMCS server addresses
25     ·   BCMCS Server domain name
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27     Command line options are as below:
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29     -c configfile
30             Use configfile as the configuration file.
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32     -d      Print debugging messages.
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34     -D      Even more debugging information is printed.
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36     -f      Foreground mode (useful when debugging).  Although dhcp6s usually
37             prints warning, debugging, or error messages to syslog(8), it
38             prints the messages to standard error if this option is speci‐
39             fied.
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41     -k ctlkeyfile
42             Use ctlkeyfile to store the shared secret to authenticate the
43             communication with dhcp6ctl.  The default file name used when
44             unspecified is /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6sctlkey.  The default name
45             is intentionally same as that for dhcp6ctl so that the server and
46             the control command can share the file when dhcp6ctl controls the
47             server on the same node, which should be the typical case.
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49     -p ctlport
50             Use ctlport as the port number listening on to communicate with
51             dhcp6ctl.
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53     -P pid-file
54             Use pid-file to dump the process ID of dhcp6s.
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FILES

57     /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6s.conf  is the default configuration file.
58     /var/lib/dhcpv6/dhcp6s_duid   is the default file to store the server's
59                                   DUID.
60     /etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6sctlkey
61                                   is the default key file to communicate with
62                                   the control command.  See dhcp6ctl(8) for
63                                   the file format.
64     /var/run/dhcp6s.pid           is the default file that contains pid of
65                                   the currently running dhcp6s.
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SEE ALSO

68     dhcp6s.conf(5), dhcp6ctl(8), dhcp6c(8)
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70     Ralph Droms, Editor, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
71     (DHCPv6), RFC 3315, 2003.
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HISTORY

74     The dhcp6s command first appeared in WIDE/KAME IPv6 protocol stack kit.
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76     The -n dnsserv command-line option was obsoleted by introducing a config‐
77     uration file.
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BUGS

80     dhcp6s is incomplete and violates DHCPv6 protocol spec, in several
81     aspects.  To name a few:
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83     1.   it does not assign temporary IPv6 addresses (nor will).
84
85KAME                             Sep 12, 1999                             KAME
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