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] [-p
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13 The kea-dhcp6 daemon provides the DHCPv6 server implementation.
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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
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28 DHCPv6 server. It may also contain configuration entries for
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32 Checks the configuration file and reports the first error, if
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37 -p server-port-number
38 Specifies the server port number (1-65535) on which the server
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42 Specifies the client port number (1-65535) to which the server
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46 Kea comes with an extensive Kea Administrator Reference Manual that
47 covers all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installa‐
48 tion, configuration, configuration examples, and much more. Kea also
49 features a Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea
50 can print with a brief description for each of them. Both documents are
51 available in various formats (.txt, .html, .pdf) with the Kea distribu‐
52 tion. The Kea documentation is available at https://kea.readthedocs.io.
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54 Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide, available
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57 The Kea project website is available at https://kea.isc.org.
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60 There are two public mailing lists available for the Kea project.
61 kea-users (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users, while
62 kea-dev (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea developers,
63 prospective contributors, and other advanced users. Both lists are
64 available at https://lists.isc.org. The community provides best-effort
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 In mid-2014, Kea was decoupled from the BIND 10 framework and became a
74 standalone DHCP server. The DHCPv6 server binary was renamed to
75 kea-dhcp6. Kea 1.0.0 was released in December 2015.
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78 kea-dhcp4(8), kea-dhcp-ddns(8), kea-ctrl-agent(8), kea-admin(8), keac‐
79 trl(8), perfdhcp(8), kea-netconf(8), kea-lfc(8), Kea Administrator Ref‐
80 erence Manual.
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