DHCP6RELAY(8)

NAME
dhcp6relay - DHCPv6 relay agent

SYNOPSIS
dhcp6relay [-Ddf] [-H hoplim] interface

DESCRIPTION
dhcp6relay acts as an intermediary to deliver DHCPv6 messages between clients and servers, and is on the same link as a client. dhcp6relay needs a command line argument interface, which specifies the link.

Options supported by dhcp6relay are:

-d  Print debugging messages.

-D  Even more debugging information is printed.

-f  Foreground mode (useful when debugging). Although dhcp6relay usually prints warning, debugging, or error messages to syslog(8), it prints the messages to standard error if this option is specified.

-H hoplim
    The option specifies the hop limit of DHCPv6 Solicit messages forwarded to servers.

SEE ALSO
dhcp6c(8), dhcp6s(8) J. Bound, M. Carney, C. Perkins, 5 May 2000, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6), internet draft, draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-24.txt, work in progress material.

HISTORY
The dhcp6relay command first appeared in WIDE/KAME IPv6 protocol stack kit.

BUGS
The current implementation does not conform to the latest draft.

The current implementation handles DHCP Solicit and DHCP Advertise messages only.