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  <info>
    <productname>ISC Kea</productname>
    <date>Dec 14, 2018</date>
    <edition>1.5.0</edition>
    <author>
      <contrib>The Kea software has been written by a number of
        engineers working for ISC: Tomek Mrugalski, Stephen Morris, Marcin
        Siodelski, Thomas Markwalder, Francis Dupont, Jeremy C. Reed,
        Wlodek Wencel and Shawn Routhier.  That list is roughly in the
        chronological order in which the authors made their first
        contribution. For a complete list of authors and
        contributors, see AUTHORS file.</contrib><orgname>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</orgname></author>
  </info>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>kea-dhcp6</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">Kea</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>kea-dhcp6</refname>
    <refpurpose>DHCPv6 server in Kea</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <docinfo>
    <copyright>
      <year>2011-2018</year>
      <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
    </copyright>
  </docinfo>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis sepchar=" ">
      <command>kea-dhcp6</command>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-v</option></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-V</option></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-W</option></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-d</option></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-c <replaceable class="parameter">config-file</replaceable></option></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-t <replaceable class="parameter">config-file</replaceable></option></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-p <replaceable class="parameter">port-number</replaceable></option></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      The <command>kea-dhcp6</command> daemon provides the
       DHCPv6 server implementation.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>ARGUMENTS</title>

    <para>The arguments are as follows:</para>

    <variablelist>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-v</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Display the version.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-V</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Display the extended version.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-W</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Display the configuration report.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-d</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Enable the debug mode with extra verbosity.
<!-- TODO: what does this do? -->
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-c</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Configuration file including the configuration for DHCPv6 server.
          It may also contain configuration entries for other Kea services.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-t</option></term>
        <listitem><para> Check the configuration file
          and report 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.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-p</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Port number (1-65535) on which the server listens. This is useful
          for testing purposes only.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>DOCUMENTATION</title>
    <para>Kea comes with an extensive Kea User's Guide documentation
      that covers all aspects of running the Kea software -
      compilation, installation, configuration, configuration examples
      and many 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 typically
      available in various formats (txt, html, pdf) with your Kea
      distribution. Kea user documentation is availalable on-line at https://kb.isc.org/docs/kea-administrator-reference-manual .</para>
    <para>
      Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide. Its
      on-line version is available at https://jenkins.isc.org/job/Kea_doc/doxygen/.
    </para>
    <para>
      Kea project website is available at: https://kea.isc.org.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT</title>
    <para>
      There are two mailing lists available for 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
      http://lists.isc.org. The community provides best effort type of support
      on both of those lists.
    </para>
    <para>
      ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See
      https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>HISTORY</title>
    <para>
      The <command>b10-dhcp6</command> daemon was first coded in
      June 2011 by Tomek Mrugalski.
    </para>
    <para>
      Kea became a standalone server and the BIND10 framework was
      removed. The DHCPv6 server binary was renamed to kea-dhcp6 in
      July 2014.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-dhcp4</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-dhcp-ddns</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-ctrl-agent</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-admin</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>keactrl</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-netconf</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>perfdhcp</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-lfc</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citetitle>Kea Administrator's Guide</citetitle>.

    </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>
