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.Dd March 19, 2012 .Dt DHCPCD 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm dhcpcd .Nd an RFC 2131 compliant DHCP client .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl ABbDdEGgHJKkLnpqTVw .Op Fl C , Fl Fl nohook Ar hook .Op Fl c , Fl Fl script Ar script .Op Fl e , Fl Fl env Ar value .Op Fl F , Fl Fl fqdn Ar FQDN .Op Fl f , Fl Fl config Ar file .Op Fl h , Fl Fl hostname Ar hostname .Op Fl I , Fl Fl clientid Ar clientid .Op Fl i , Fl Fl vendorclassid Ar vendorclassid .Op Fl l , Fl Fl leasetime Ar seconds .Op Fl m , Fl Fl metric Ar metric .Op Fl O , Fl Fl nooption Ar option .Op Fl o , Fl Fl option Ar option .Op Fl Q , Fl Fl require Ar option .Op Fl r , Fl Fl request Ar address .Op Fl S , Fl Fl static Ar value .Op Fl s , Fl Fl inform Ar address Ns Op Ar /cidr .Op Fl t , Fl Fl timeout Ar seconds .Op Fl u , Fl Fl userclass Ar class .Op Fl v , Fl Fl vendor Ar code , Ar value .Op Fl W , Fl Fl whitelist Ar address Ns Op Ar /cidr .Op Fl y , Fl Fl reboot Ar seconds .Op Fl X , Fl Fl blacklist Ar address Ns Op Ar /cidr .Op Fl Z , Fl Fl denyinterfaces Ar pattern .Op Fl z , Fl Fl allowinterfaces Ar pattern .Op interface .Op ... .Nm .Fl k , Fl Fl release .Op interface .Nm .Fl U, Fl Fl dumplease .Ar interface .Nm .Fl Fl version .Nm .Fl x , Fl Fl exit .Op interface .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in .Li RFC 2131 . .Nm gets the host information
o IP address, routes, etc
c from a DHCP server and configures the network .Ar interface of the machine on which it is running. .Nm then runs the configuration script which writes DNS information to .Xr resolvconf 8 , if available, otherwise directly to
a /etc/resolv.conf . If the hostname is currently blank, (null) or localhost, or .Va force_hostname is YES or TRUE or 1 then .Nm sets the hostname to the one supplied by the DHCP server. .Nm then daemonises and waits for the lease renewal time to lapse. It will then attempt to renew its lease and reconfigure if the new lease changes.
p .Nm is also an implementation of the BOOTP client specified in .Li RFC 951 .
p .Nm is also an implementation of an IPv6 Router Solicitor as specified in .Li RFC 6106 with regard to the RDNSS and DNSSL options. .Ss Local Link configuration If .Nm failed to obtain a lease, it probes for a valid IPv4LL address
o aka ZeroConf, aka APIPA
c . Once obtained it restarts the process of looking for a DHCP server to get a proper address.
p When using IPv4LL, .Nm nearly always succeeds and returns an exit code of 0. In the rare case it fails, it normally means that there is a reverse ARP proxy installed which always defeats IPv4LL probing. To disable this behaviour, you can use the .Fl L , Fl Fl noipv4ll option. .Ss Multiple interfaces If a list of interfaces are given on the command line, then .Nm only works with those interfaces, otherwise .Nm discovers available Ethernet interfaces. If any interface reports a working carrier then .Nm will try and obtain a lease before forking to the background, otherwise it will fork right away. This behaviour can be modified with the .Fl b , Fl Fl background and .Fl w , Fl Fl waitip options.
p If a single interface is given then .Nm only works for that interface and runs as a separate instance. The .Fl w , Fl Fl waitip option is enabled in this instance to maintain compatibility with older versions.
p Interfaces are preferred by carrier, DHCP lease/IPv4LL and then lowest metric. For systems that support route metrics, each route will be tagged with the metric, otherwise .Nm changes the routes to use the interface with the same route and the lowest metric. See options below for controlling which interfaces we allow and deny through the use of patterns. .Ss Hooking into DHCP events .Nm runs
a @SCRIPT@ , or the script specified by the .Fl c , Fl Fl script option. This script runs each script found in
a @HOOKDIR@ in a lexical order. The default installation supplies the scripts
a 01-test ,
a 10-mtu ,
a 20-resolv.conf and
a 30-hostname . You can disable each script by using the .Fl C , Fl Fl nohook option. See .Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 for details on how these scripts work. .Nm currently ignores the exit code of the script. .Ss Fine tuning You can fine-tune the behaviour of .Nm with the following options: l -tag -width indent t Fl b , Fl Fl background Background immediately. This is useful for startup scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier status. t Fl c , Fl Fl script Ar script Use this .Ar script instead of the default
a @SCRIPT@ . t Fl D , Fl Fl duid Generate an .Li RFC 4361 compliant clientid. This requires persistent storage and not all DHCP servers work with it so it is not enabled by default. .Nm generates the DUID and stores it in
a @SYSCONFDIR@/dhcpcd.duid . This file should not be copied to other hosts. t Fl d , Fl Fl debug Echo debug messages to the stderr and syslog. t Fl E , Fl Fl lastlease If .Nm cannot obtain a lease, then try to use the last lease acquired for the interface. If the .Fl p, Fl Fl persistent option is not given then the lease is used if it hasn't expired. t Fl e , Fl Fl env Ar value Push .Ar value to the environment for use in .Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 . For example, you can force the hostname hook to always set the hostname with .Fl e .Va force_hostname=YES . t Fl g , Fl Fl reconfigure .Nm will re-apply IP address, routing and run .Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 for each interface. This is useful so that a 3rd party such as PPP or VPN can change the routing table and / or DNS, etc and then instruct .Nm to put things back afterwards. .Nm does not read a new configuration when this happens - you should rebind if you need that functionality. t Fl F , Fl Fl fqdn Ar fqdn Requests that the DHCP server updates DNS using FQDN instead of just a hostname. Valid values for .Ar fqdn are disable, none, ptr and both. .Nm itself never does any DNS updates. .Nm encodes the FQDN hostname as specified in .Li RFC1035 . t Fl f , Fl Fl config Ar file Specify a config to load instead of
a @SYSCONFDIR@/dhcpcd.conf . .Nm always processes the config file before any command line options. t Fl h , Fl Fl hostname Ar hostname Sends .Ar hostname to the DHCP server so it can be registered in DNS. If .Ar hostname is an empty string then the current system hostname is sent. If .Ar hostname is a FQDN (ie, contains a .) then it will be encoded as such. t Fl I , Fl Fl clientid Ar clientid Send the .Ar clientid . If the string is of the format 01:02:03 then it is encoded as hex. For interfaces whose hardware address is longer than 8 bytes, or if the .Ar clientid is an empty string then .Nm sends a default .Ar clientid of the hardware family and the hardware address. t Fl i , Fl Fl vendorclassid Ar vendorclassid Override the .Ar vendorclassid field sent. The default is dhcpcd <version>. If not set then none is sent. t Fl k , Fl Fl release This causes an existing .Nm process running on the .Ar interface to release its lease, de-configure the .Ar interface and then exit. .Nm then waits until this process has exited. t Fl l , Fl Fl leasetime Ar seconds Request a specific lease time in .Ar seconds . By default .Nm does not request any lease time and leaves it in the hands of the DHCP server. t Fl m , Fl Fl metric Ar metric Metrics are used to prefer an interface over another one, lowest wins. .Nm will supply a default metic of 200 + .Xr if_nametoindex 3 . An extra 100 will be added for wireless interfaces. t Fl n , Fl Fl rebind Notifies .Nm to reload its configuration and rebind its interfaces. If .Nm is not running, then it starts up as normal. t Fl o , Fl Fl option Ar option Request the DHCP .Ar option variable for use in
a @SCRIPT@ . t Fl p , Fl Fl persistent .Nm normally de-configures the .Ar interface and configuration when it exits. Sometimes, this isn't desirable if, for example, you have root mounted over NFS. You can use this option to stop this from happening. t Fl r , Fl Fl request Op Ar address Request the .Ar address in the DHCP DISCOVER message. There is no guarantee this is the address the DHCP server will actually give. If no .Ar address is given then the first address currently assigned to the .Ar interface is used. t Fl s , Fl Fl inform Op Ar address Ns Op Ar /cidr Behaves like .Fl r , Fl Fl request as above, but sends a DHCP INFORM instead of DISCOVER/REQUEST. This does not get a lease as such, just notifies the DHCP server of the .Ar address in use. You should also include the optional .Ar cidr network number in case the address is not already configured on the interface. .Nm remains running and pretends it has an infinite lease. .Nm will not de-configure the interface when it exits. If .Nm fails to contact a DHCP server then it returns a failure instead of falling back on IPv4LL. t Fl t , Fl Fl timeout Ar seconds Timeout after .Ar seconds , instead of the default 30. A setting of 0 .Ar seconds causes .Nm to wait forever to get a lease. t Fl u , Fl Fl userclass Ar class Tags the DHCP message with the userclass .Ar class . DHCP servers use this to give members of the class DHCP options other than the default, without having to know things like hardware address or hostname. t Fl v , Fl Fl vendor Ar code , Ns Ar value Add an encapsulated vendor option. .Ar code should be between 1 and 254 inclusive. To add a raw vendor string, omit .Ar code but keep the comma. Examples.
p Set the vendor option 01 with an IP address. .D1 dhcpcd -v 01,192.168.0.2 eth0 Set the vendor option 02 with a hex code. .D1 dhcpcd -v 02,01:02:03:04:05 eth0 Set the vendor option 03 with an IP address as a string. .D1 dhcpcd -v 03,\e"192.168.0.2\e" eth0 Set un-encapsulated vendor option to hello world. .D1 dhcpcd -v ,"hello world" eth0 t Fl Fl version Display both program version and copyright information. .Nm then exits before doing any configuration. t Fl w , Fl Fl waitip Wait for an address to be assigned before forking to the background. t Fl x , Fl Fl exit This will signal an existing .Nm process running on the .Ar interface to de-configure the .Ar interface and exit. .Nm then waits until this process has exited. t Fl y , Fl Fl reboot Ar seconds Allow .Ar reboot seconds before moving to the discover phase if we have an old lease to use. The default is 5 seconds. A setting of 0 seconds causes .Nm to skip the reboot phase and go straight into discover. .El .Ss Restricting behaviour .Nm will try to do as much as it can by default. However, there are sometimes situations where you don't want the things to be configured exactly how the the DHCP server wants. Here are some options that deal with turning these bits off. l -tag -width indent t Fl A , Fl Fl noarp Don't request or claim the address by ARP. This also disables IPv4LL. t Fl B , Fl Fl nobackground Don't run in the background when we acquire a lease. This is mainly useful for running under the control of another process, such as a debugger or a network manager. t Fl C , Fl Fl nohook Ar script Don't run this hook script. Matches full name, or prefixed with 2 numbers optionally ending with
a .sh .
p So to stop .Nm from touching your DNS or MTU settings you would do:- .D1 dhcpcd -C resolv.conf -C mtu eth0 t Fl G , Fl Fl nogateway Don't set any default routes. t Fl H , Fl Fl xidhwaddr Use the last four bytes of the hardware address as the DHCP xid instead of a randomly generated number. t Fl J , Fl Fl broadcast Instructs the DHCP server to broadcast replies back to the client. Normally this is only set for non Ethernet interfaces, such as FireWire and InfiniBand. In most instances, .Nm will set this automatically. t Fl K , Fl Fl nolink Don't receive link messages for carrier status. You should only have to use this with buggy device drivers or running .Nm through a network manager. t Fl L , Fl Fl noipv4ll Don't use IPv4LL (aka APIPA, aka Bonjour, aka ZeroConf). t Fl O , Fl Fl nooption Ar option Don't request the specified option. If no option given, then don't request any options other than those to configure the interface and routing. t Fl Q , Fl Fl require Ar option Requires the .Ar option to be present in all DHCP messages, otherwise the message is ignored. To enforce that .Nm only responds to DHCP servers and not BOOTP servers, you can .Fl Q .Ar dhcp_message_type . t Fl q , Fl Fl quiet Quiet .Nm on the command line, only warnings and errors will be displayed. The messages are still logged though. t Fl S, Fl Fl static Ar value Configures a static .Ar value . If you set c ip_address then .Nm will not attempt to obtain a lease and just use the value for the address with an infinite lease time.
p Here is an example which configures a static address, routes and dns. .D1 dhcpcd -S ip_address=192.168.0.10/24 \e .D1 -S routers=192.168.0.1 \e .D1 -S domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1 \e .D1 eth0 t Fl T, Fl Fl test On receipt of DHCP messages just call
a @SCRIPT@ with the reason of TEST which echos the DHCP variables found in the message to the console. The interface configuration isn't touched and neither are any configuration files. To test INFORM the interface needs to be configured with the desired address before starting .Nm . t Fl U, Fl Fl dumplease Ar interface Dumps the last lease for the .Ar interface to stdout. .Ar interface could also be a path to a DHCP wire formatted file. t Fl V, Fl Fl variables Display a list of option codes and the associated variable for use in .Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 . Variables are prefixed with new_ and old_ unless the option number is -. Variables without an option are part of the DHCP message and cannot be directly requested. t Fl W, Fl Fl whitelist Ar address Ns Op /cidr Only accept packets from .Ar address Ns Op /cidr . .Fl X, Fl Fl blacklist is ignored if .Fl W, Fl Fl whitelist is set. t Fl X, Fl Fl blacklist Ar address Ns Op Ar /cidr Ignore all packets from .Ar address Ns Op Ar /cidr . t Fl Z , Fl Fl denyinterfaces Ar pattern When discovering interfaces, the interface name must not match .Ar pattern which is a space or comma separated list of patterns passed to .Xr fnmatch 3 . t Fl z , Fl Fl allowinterfaces Ar pattern When discovering interfaces, the interface name must match .Ar pattern which is a space or comma separated list of patterns passed to .Xr fnmatch 3 . If the same interface is matched in .Fl Z , Fl Fl denyinterfaces then it is still denied. .El .Sh 3RDPARTY LINK MANAGEMENT Some interfaces require configuration by 3rd parties, such as PPP or VPN. When an interface configuration in .Nm is marked as STATIC or INFORM without an address then .Nm will monitor the interface until an address is added or removed from it and act accordingly. For point to point interfaces (like PPP), a default route to its destination is automatically added to the configuration. If the point to point interface is configured for INFORM, then .Nm unicasts INFORM to the destination, otherwise it defaults to STATIC. .Sh NOTES .Nm requires a Berkley Packet Filter, or BPF device on BSD based systems and a Linux Socket Filter, or LPF device on Linux based systems. .Sh FILES l -ohang t Pa @SYSCONFDIR@/dhcpcd.conf Configuration file for dhcpcd. If you always use the same options, put them here. t Pa @SYSCONFDIR@/dhcpcd.duid Text file that holds the DUID used to identify the host. t Pa @SCRIPT@ Bourne shell script that is run to configure or de-configure an interface. t Pa @HOOKDIR@ A directory containing bourne shell scripts that are run by the above script. Each script can be disabled by using the .Fl C , Fl Fl nohook option described above. t Pa @DBDIR@/dhcpcd- Ns Ar interface Ns .lease The actual DHCP message send by the server. We use this when reading the last lease and use the files mtime as when it was issued. t Pa /var/run/dhcpcd.pid Stores the PID of .Nm running on all interfaces. t Pa /var/run/dhcpcd- Ns Ar interface Ns .pid Stores the PID of .Nm running on the .Ar interface . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fnmatch 3 , .Xr if_nametoindex 3 , .Xr dhcpcd.conf 5 , .Xr resolv.conf 5 , .Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 , .Xr resolvconf 8 .Sh STANDARDS RFC 951, RFC 1534, RFC 2131, RFC 2132, RFC 2855, RFC 3004, RFC 3361, RFC 3396, RFC 3397, RFC 3442, RFC 3927, RFC 4361, RFC 4390, RFC 4702, RFC 5969, RFC 6106. .Sh AUTHORS .An Roy Marples Aq roy (at] marples.name .Sh BUGS Please report them to .Lk http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd
