works as a DHCPv6 client and gets information from DHCPv6 servers
to configure the specified
interface
Multiple
interfaces
can be specified separated by spaces or tabs,
in which case
will work on all the interfaces simultaneously.
The command line options are:
-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
usually prints warning, debugging, or error messages to
syslog(8),
it prints the messages to standard error if this option is
specified.
-i
Info-req mode. In this mode, stateless DHCPv6 is executed with the folllowing configuration, and the obtained info is written to stdout. After this output,
is terminated. (suits for a use in shell-script etc).
interface (interface given in the argument) {
information-only;
script (a script which displays the received information to stdout);
};
Since the configuration is internally generated, you cannot provide a configuration in this mode. If you want to have different actions for the stateless DHCPv6 information, you should write an appropriate configuration and invoke
without this option.
-p pid-file
Use
pid-file
to dump the process ID of
.
-P profile
Use the given
profile
defined in the
configuration file for
interfaces
which do not have a specific configuration.
The program will daemonize itself on invocation unless the
-f
or
-i
option is specified.
Upon receipt of the
SIGHUP
or
SIGTERM
signals,
will remove all stateful resources from the system.
In the former case the daemon will then reinvoke itself,
while it will stop running in the latter case.
In either case,
will send DHCPv6 Release messages to release resources assigned from servers.
FILES
/var/run/dhcp6c.pid
is the default file that contains pid of the currently running
dhcp6c
/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.conf
is the default configuration file.
/var/lib/dhcpv6/dhcp6c_duid
is the file to store the client's DUID.
Configuration Script
When
receives a reply message,
it will invoke a supplementary configuration script specified in the
dhcp6c.conf5
file.
The daemon will provide the script with configuration parameters as
environment variables,
which include:
REASON
The reason why the script is invoked.
As of this writing,
the value is always
"NBI"
and thus meaningless.
new_domain_name_servers
A list of available DNS servers,
each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white
space character.
new_domain_name
A list of DNS names,
which provides DNS name search path.
new_ntp_servers
A list of available NTP servers,
each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white
space character.
new_sip_servers
A list of available SIP server addresses,
each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white
space character.
new_sip_name
A list of SIP server domain names.
new_nis_servers
A list of available NIS server addresses,
each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white
space character.
new_nis_name
A list of NIS domain names.
new_nisp_servers
A list of available NIS+ server addresses,
each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white
space character.
new_nisp_name
A list of NIS+ domain names.
new_bcmcs_servers
A list of available BCMCS server addresses,
each of which is an IPv6 numeric address and is separated by a white
space character.
new_bcmcs_name
A list of BCMCS server domain names.
Note that the daemon does not always provide all the parameters.
It sets an environment variable only when the corresponding
configuration parameter is provided by the DHCPv6 server.