.TH isc-dhcp 5 "17 May 2011" "SunOS 5.11"

.SH NAME

isc\-dhcp \- ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Software

.SH DESCRIPTION

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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) DHCP Server (dhcpd)

implements the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

(DHCPv4 and DHCPv6), and the Internet Bootstrap Protocol

(BOOTP). DHCP allows hosts on a TCP/IP network to request

and be assigned IP addresses, and also to discover information

about the network to which they are attached.  BOOTP

provides similar functionality, with certain restrictions.

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ISC Relay Agent (dhcrelay) provides a means for relaying DHCP

and BOOTP requests from a subnet to which no DHCP server is

directly connected to one or more DHCP servers on other subnets.

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The services above (dhcpd and dhcrelay) are managed using the Service

Management Facility (SMF) on Solaris, and should be administered by

the svcadm(1M) command using  the following fault management resource

identifiers (FMRIs):

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.in +2

.nf

svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4

svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv6

svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4

svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6

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The following dhcpd service configuration properties can be viewed with

svcprop(1M) and modified via svccfg(1M):

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debug

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.RS 4n

Send log messages from the DHCP daemon to  the  standard  error  descriptor.

Setting this property to true ensures the -d command-line option is

used when starting dhcpd. This property is set to false by default.

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.ne 2

.mk

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config_file

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.RS 4n

Path to alternate configuration file. The value of this property

is passed as an argument to the -cf command-line option of dhcpd.

The default is set to /etc/inet/dhcpd6.conf and /etc/inet/dhcpd4.conf

for DHCP v6 and v4 servers respectively.

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lease_file

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.RS 4n

Path to alternate lease file. The value of this property is passed

as an argument to the -lf command-line option of dhcpd. The default value

is set to /var/db/isc-dhcp/v4.leases for DHCPv4 and /var/db/isc-dhcp/v6.leases for

DHCPv6.

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listen_ifnames

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.RS 4n

optional parameter that allows users to specify one or more network

interfaces on which dhcpd should serve DHCP requests. This property

matches the "if0" command-line option of dhcpd.  Note that the

interface names must be seperated by a comma.  Please see Example 4.

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The following dhcrelay options are available as

service configuration properties and can be viewed with svcprop(1M)

and modified via svccfg(1M):

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append_agent_option (v4 only)

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.RS 4n

Setting this option to true ensures the DHCP relay appends an agent option

field to each request before forwarding the request to the DHCP

server. When this property is set to true, the -a command-line option

is used when launching dhcrelay. The default value of this property is

false. This option is only applicable to the svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4 service. 

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listen_ifnames (v4 only)

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.RS 4n

This option allows users to specify one or more interfaces on which

the DHCP relay should listen for DHCPv4/BOOTP queries. This option is

only applicable to the svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4 service. 

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servers (v4 only)

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.RS 4n

Users must set this property to the IP addresses of one or more

servers before enabling the relay service

(svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4). The servers property value must be a

comma-separated list of IP addresses. This option is

only applicable to the svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4 service. 

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receive_query_links (v6 only)

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.RS 4n

Users must set this property value to specify the interface(s) on which

queries will be received from clients or from other relay agents

before enabling the relay service (svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6).

This option is only applicable to the svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6 service. 

See also Example 3.

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forward_query_links (v6 only)

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.RS 4n

Users must set this property value to specify the interface(s) on which

queries from clients and other relay agents should be forwarded before

enabling the relay service (svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6).  The

property value is passed as the argument for the -u command-line

option to the dhcrelay program. The interface(s) specified must be

comma-separated. This option is only applicable to the

svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6 service. 

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Since dhcpd and dhcrelay are managed using SMF no pid files are created.  

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.SH EXAMPLES

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\fBExample 1 \fR Enabling DHCPv4 Server 

ISC DHCPv4 server service is disabled by default. The following

command enables the ISC DHCPv4 service:

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.nf

example# svcadm enable svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4

.fi

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\fBExample 2 \fR Displaying the configurable properties of DHCPv6 Relay

Agent service.  The following command displays all configurable properties of 

DHCPv6 Relay Agent Service:

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.nf

example# svccfg -s dhcp/relay:ipv6 listprop config

config                      application

config/forward_query_links  astring  

config/listen_ifnames       astring  

config/receive_query_links  astring  

config/value_authorization  astring  solaris.smf.value.dhcp

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\fBExample 3 \fR Setting the receive_query_links property value of DHCPv6 Relay

Agent service.  The following commands will set the receive_links property value to the

following values: 10.0.0.1%e10000g#0,bge0,iprb#1

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example# svccfg -s dhcp/relay:ipv6 setprop \\

    config/receive_query_links= \\

    \\(\\"10.0.0.1%e10000g#0\\"\\"bge0\\"\\"iprb#1\\"\\)

example# svccfg -s dhcp/relay:ipv6 refresh

NOTE: spaces are not allowed in the string within quotes in the

      setprop command 

To verify that the property values are set type either

the svccfg command or the svcprop command below:

example# svccfg -s dhcp/relay:ipv6 listprop config/receive_query_links

config/receive_query_links  astring  "10.0.0.1%e10000g#0" "bge0" "iprb#1"

example# svcprop -p config/receive_query_links dhcp/relay:ipv6

10.0.0.1%e10000g#0 bge0 iprb#1

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\fBExample 4 \fR Setting the listen_ifnames property value for dhcpd.

The following commands will set the listen_ifnames property to 

"bge0, bge1" and then display the updated values.

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.nf

example# svccfg -s dhcp/server:ipv4 setprop \\

    config/listen_ifnames = \\(\\"bge0\\"\\"bge1\\"\\) 

example# svccfg -s dhcp/server:ipv4 refresh

NOTE: spaces are not allowed in the string within quotes in the

      setprop command 

To verify that the property values are set type:

example# svccfg -s dhcp/server:ipv4 listprop config/listen_ifnames

config/listen_ifnames  astring  "bge0" "bge1" 

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.SH SEE ALSO

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svccfg(1M), svcprop(1), svcadm(1M), dhcpd(8), dhcrelay(8)