The kea-dhcp6 daemon provides the DHCPv6 server
implementation.
The arguments are as follows:
- -v
- Displays the Kea version.
- -V
- Displays the extended Kea version.
- -W
- Displays the configuration report.
- -d
- Enables the debug mode with extra verbosity.
- -c
config-file
- Specifies the configuration file with the configuration for the DHCPv6
server. It may also contain configuration entries for other Kea
services.
- -t
config-file
- Checks the configuration file and reports the first error, if any. Note
that not all parameters are completely checked; in particular, service and
control channel sockets are not opened, and hook libraries are not
loaded.
- -T
config-file
- Checks the configuration file and reports the first error, if any. It
performs extra checks beyond what -t offers, such as establishing database
connections (for the lease backend, host reservations backend,
configuration backend, and forensic logging backend), loading hook
libraries, parsing hook-library configurations, etc. It does not open UNIX
or TCP/UDP sockets, nor does it open or rotate files, as any of these
actions could interfere with a running process on the same machine.
- -p
server-port-number
- Specifies the server port number (1-65535) on which the server listens.
This is useful for testing purposes only.
- -P
client-port-number
- Specifies the client port number (1-65535) to which the server responds.
This is useful for testing purposes only.
Kea comes with an extensive Kea Administrator Reference Manual
that covers all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation,
installation, configuration, configuration examples, and much more. Kea also
features a Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea can
print with a brief description for each of them. Both documents are
available in various formats (.txt, .html, .pdf) with the Kea distribution.
The Kea documentation is available at
<https://kea.readthedocs.io> .
Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide,
available at <https://reports.kea.isc.org/dev_guide/> .
The Kea project website is available at
<https://kea.isc.org> .
There are two public mailing lists available for the Kea project.
kea-users (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users,
while kea-dev (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea
developers, prospective contributors, and other advanced users. Both lists
are available at
<https://lists.isc.org> . The community provides best-effort support on
both of those lists.
ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See
<https://www.isc.org/kea/> for details.
The b10-dhcp6 daemon was first coded in June 2011 by Tomek
Mrugalski.
In mid-2014, Kea was decoupled from the BIND 10 framework and
became a standalone DHCP server. The DHCPv6 server binary was renamed to
kea-dhcp6. Kea 1.0.0 was released in December 2015.
:manpage:`kea-dhcp4(8)`
,
:manpage:`kea-dhcp-ddns(8)`
,
:manpage:`kea-ctrl-agent(8)`
,
:manpage:`kea-admin(8)`
,
:manpage:`keactrl(8)`
,
:manpage:`perfdhcp(8)`
,
:manpage:`kea-netconf(8)`
,
:manpage:`kea-lfc(8)`
, Kea Administrator Reference Manual.
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