.. Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. ``kea-dhcp4`` - DHCPv4 server in Kea ------------------------------------ Synopsis ~~~~~~~~ :program:`kea-dhcp4` [**-v**] [**-V**] [**-W**] [**-d**] [**-c** config-file] [**-t** config-file] [**-p** server-port-number] [**-P** client-port-number] Description ~~~~~~~~~~~ The ``kea-dhcp4`` daemon provides the DHCPv4 server implementation. Arguments ~~~~~~~~~ The arguments are as follows: ``-v`` Displays the version. ``-V`` Displays the extended version. ``-W`` Displays the configuration report. ``-d`` Enables the debug mode with extra verbosity. ``-c config-file`` Specifies the configuration file with the configuration for the DHCPv4 server. It may also contain configuration entries for other Kea services. ``-t config-file`` Checks the configuration file and reports 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. ``-p server-port-number`` Specifies the server port number (1-65535) on which the server listens. This is useful for testing purposes only. ``-P client-port-number`` Specifies the client port number (1-65535) to which the server responds. This is useful for testing purposes only. Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kea comes with an extensive Kea Administrator Reference Manual that covers all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installation, configuration, configuration examples, and much 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 available in various formats (.txt, .html, .pdf) with the Kea distribution. The Kea documentation is available at https://kea.readthedocs.io. Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide, available at https://reports.kea.isc.org/dev_guide/. The Kea project website is available at https://kea.isc.org. Mailing Lists and Support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are two public mailing lists available for the 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 https://lists.isc.org. The community provides best-effort support on both of those lists. ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details. History ~~~~~~~ The ``b10-dhcp4`` daemon was first coded in November 2011 by Tomek Mrugalski. In mid-2014, Kea was decoupled from the BIND 10 framework and became a standalone DHCP server. The DHCPv4 server binary was renamed to ``kea-dhcp4``. Kea 1.0.0 was released in December 2015. See Also ~~~~~~~~ :manpage:`kea-dhcp6(8)`, :manpage:`kea-dhcp-ddns(8)`, :manpage:`kea-ctrl-agent(8)`, :manpage:`kea-admin(8)`, :manpage:`keactrl(8)`, :manpage:`perfdhcp(8)`, :manpage:`kea-netconf(8)`, :manpage:`kea-lfc(8)`, Kea Administrator Reference Manual.