acts as an intermediary to deliver DHCPv6 messages between clients and
servers, and is on the same link as a client.
needs command line arguments
interface ...
which specifies the list of links accommodating clients.
Options supported by
are:
-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.
-b boundaddr
Specifies the source address to relay packets to servers (or other
agents).
-H hoplim
Specifies the hop limit of DHCPv6 Solicit messages forwarded to
servers.
-r relay-IF
Specifies the interface on which messages to servers are sent.
When omitted, the same interface as
interface
will be used.
When multiple
interface
are specified, this option cannot be omitted.
-s serveraddr
Specifies the DHCPv6 server address to relay packets to.
If not specified, packets are relayed to ff05::1:3 (All DHCPv6 servers).
-S script-file
Specifies the script file to be executed when
receives a RELAY-REPLY message from a DHCPv6 server. Further detail of the
script file syntax is available in
dhcp6c(8)
-p pid-file
Use
pid-file
to dump the process ID of
.
FILES
/var/run/dhcp6relay.pid
is the default file that contains pid of the currently running
.