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KEA-DHCP6(8) Kea KEA-DHCP6(8) NAME kea-dhcp6 - DHCPv6 server in Kea SYNOPSIS kea-dhcp6 [-v] [-V] [-W] [-d] [-c config-file] [-t config-file] [-p server-port-number] [-P client-port-number] DESCRIPTION The kea-dhcp6 daemon provides the DHCPv6 server implementation. ARGUMENTS 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 log- ging backend), loading hook libraries, parsing hook-library con- figurations, etc. It does not open UNIX or TCP/UDP sockets, nor does it open or rotate files, as any of these actions could in- terfere 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. DOCUMENTATION Kea comes with an extensive Kea Administrator Reference Manual that covers all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installa- tion, 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 distribu- tion. 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. MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT 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. HISTORY 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. SEE ALSO kea-dhcp4(8), kea-dhcp-ddns(8), kea-ctrl-agent(8), kea-admin(8), keac- trl(8), perfdhcp(8), kea-netconf(8), kea-lfc(8), Kea Administrator Ref- erence Manual. AUTHOR Internet Systems Consortium COPYRIGHT 2019-2025, Internet Systems Consortium 2.7.7 Mar 24, 2025 KEA-DHCP6(8)
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