dhcp6d

dhcp6d

Command dhcp6d is an example DHCPv6 server. It can only assign a single IPv6 address, and is not a complete DHCPv6 server implementation by any means. It is meant to demonstrate usage of package dhcp6.

Example

This example makes use of two machines (a client, "dhcp6c", and server, "dhcp6d") and the dhclient(8) and dhcp6d binaries.

Use server to begin serving a single IPv6 address using DHCPv6:

matt@dhcp6d:~$ sudo ./dhcp6d -h
Usage of ./dhcp6d:
  -i string
        interface to serve DHCPv6 (default "eth0")
  -ip string
        IPv6 address to serve over DHCPv6
matt@dhcp6d:~$ sudo ./dhcp6d -i eth0 -ip dead:beef:d34d:b33f::10
2015/09/02 14:50:31 binding DHCPv6 server to interface eth0...

Use client to request an IPv6 address using DHCPv6:

matt@dhcp6c:~$ ifconfig eth0 | grep ::10
matt@dhcp6c:~$ sudo dhclient -6 eth0
matt@dhcp6c:~$ ifconfig eth0 | grep ::10
          inet6 addr: dead:beef:d34d:b33f::10/64 Scope:Global