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+.Dd January 29, 2014
+.Dt DHCPCD.CONF 5
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm dhcpcd.conf
+.Nd dhcpcd configuration file
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+Although
+.Nm dhcpcd
+can do everything from the command line, there are cases where it's just easier
+to do it once in a configuration file.
+Most of the options found in
+.Xr dhcpcd 8
+can be used here.
+The first word on the line is the option and the rest of the line is the value.
+Leading and trailing whitespace for the option and value are trimmed.
+You can escape characters in the value using the \\ character.
+.Pp
+Blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
+.Pp
+Here's a list of available options:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Ic 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
+.Ic denyinterfaces
+then it is still denied.
+.It Ic 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 .
+.It Ic arping Ar address Op address
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will arping each address in order before attempting DHCP.
+If an address is found, we will select the replying hardware address as the
+profile, otherwise the ip address.
+Example:
+.Pp
+.D1 interface bge0
+.D1 arping 192.168.0.1
+.Pp
+.D1 profile 192.168.0.1
+.D1 static ip_address=192.168.0.10/24
+.It Ic authprotocol Ar protocol Ar algorithm Ar rdm
+Authenticate DHCP messages.
+See the Supported Protocols section.
+.It Ic authtoken Ar secretid Ar realm Ar expire Ar key
+Define a shared key for use in authentication.
+.Ar realm can be "" to for use with the
+.Ar delayed
+prptocol.
+.Ar expire
+is the date the token expires and should be formatted "yyy-mm-dd HH:MM".
+You can use the keyword
+.Ar forever
+or
+.Ar 0
+which means the token never expires.
+.It Ic background
+Background immediately.
+This is useful for startup scripts which don't disable link messages for
+carrier status.
+.It Ic blacklist Ar address Ns Op /cidr
+Ignores all packets from
+.Ar address Ns Op /cidr .
+.It Ic whitelist Ar address Ns Op /cidr
+Only accept packets from
+.Ar address Ns Op /cidr .
+.Ic blacklist
+is ignored if
+.Ic whitelist
+is set.
+.It Ic 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 cases,
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will set this automatically.
+.It Ic dev Ar value
+Load the
+.Ar value
+.Pa /dev
+management module.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will load the first one found to work, if any.
+.It Ic 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
+.Ic env
+.Va force_hostname=YES .
+.Pp
+If the hostname is set, will be will set to the FQDN if possible as per
+RFC 4702 section 3.1.
+If the FQDN option is missing,
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will still try and set a FQDN from the hostname and domain options for
+consistency.
+To override this, set
+.Ic env
+.Va hostname_fqdn=[YES|NO|SERVER] .
+A value of server means just what the server says, don't manipulate it.
+This could lead to an inconsistent hostname on a DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 network
+where the DHCPv4 hostname is short and the DHCPv6 has an FQDN.
+DHCPv6 has no hostname option.
+.It Ic clientid Ar string
+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 dhcpcd
+sends a default
+.Ar clientid
+of the hardware family and the hardware address.
+.It Ic duid
+Generate an
+.Rs
+.%T "RFC 4361"
+.Re
+compliant DHCP Unique Identifier.
+If persistent storage is available then a DUID-LLT (link local address + time)
+is generated, otherwise DUID-LL is generated (link local address).
+This, plus the IAID will be used as the
+.Ic clientid .
+The DUID-LLT generated will be held in
+.Pa @SYSCONFDIR@/dhcpcd.duid
+and should not be copied to other hosts.
+.It Ic iaid Ar iaid
+Set the Interface Association Identifier to
+.Ar iaid .
+This option must be used in an
+.Ic interface
+block.
+This defaults to the last 4 bytes of the hardware address assigned to the
+interface.
+Each instance of this should be unique within the scope of the client and
+.Nm dhcpcd
+warns if a conflict is detected.
+If there is a conflict, it is only a problem if the conflicted IAIDs are
+used on the same network.
+.It Ic persistent
+.Nm dhcpcd
+normally de-configures the interface and configuration when it exits.
+Sometimes, this isn't desirable if, for example, you have root mounted over
+NFS or SSH clients connect to this host and they need to be notified of
+the host shutting down.
+You can use this option to stop this from happening.
+.It Ic fallback Ar profile
+Fallback to using this profile if DHCP fails.
+This allows you to configure a static profile instead of using ZeroConf.
+.It Ic hostname Ar name
+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.
+.It Ic hostname_short
+Sends the short hostname to the DHCP server instead of the FQDN.
+This is useful because DHCP servers will not register the FQDN in their
+DNS if the domain part does not match theirs.
+.Pp
+Also, see the
+.Ic env
+option above to control how the hostname is set on the host.
+.It Ic ia_na Op Ar iaid
+Request a DHCPv6 Normal Address for
+.Ar iaid .
+.Ar iaid
+defaults to the
+.Ic iaid
+option as described above.
+You can request more than one ia_na by specifying a unique
+.Ar iaid
+for each one.
+.It Ic ia_ta Op Ar iaid
+Request a DHCPv6 Temporary Address for
+.Ar iaid .
+You can request more than one ia_ta by specifying a unique
+.Ar iaid
+for each one.
+.It Ic ia_pd Op Ar iaid Op Ar interface Op / Ar sla_id Op / Ar prefix_len
+Request a DHCPv6 Delegated Prefix for
+.Ar iaid .
+This option must be used in an
+.Ic interface
+block.
+If no
+.Ar interface
+is given then we will assign a prefix to every other interface with a unique
+.Ar sla_id
+for each, starting from 0.
+Otherwise addresses are only assigned for each
+.Ar interface
+and
+.Ar sla_id .
+You cannot assign a prefix to the requesting interface.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+has to be running for all the interfaces it is delegating to.
+A default
+.Ar prefix_len
+of 64 is assumed.
+.Ar sla_id
+is an integer and is added to the prefix which must fit inside
+.Ar prefix_len
+less the length of the delegated prefix.
+You can specify multiple
+.Ar interface /
+.Ar sla_id /
+.Ar prefix_len
+per
+.Ic ia_pd ,
+space separated.
+IPv6RS should be disabled globally when requesting a Prefix Delegation like so:
+.Pp
+.D1 noipv6rs
+.D1 # Don't touch eth3 at all
+.D1 denyinterfaces eth3
+.Pp
+.D1 interface eth0
+.D1 ia_pd 1 eth1/0 eth2/1
+.Pp
+.D1 # Disable automatic address configuration for eth1
+.D1 # eth1 still gets a delegated prefix
+.D1 interface eth1
+.D1 noipv4
+.D1 noipv6
+.It Ic ipv4only
+Only configure IPv4.
+.It Ic ipv6only
+Only confgiure IPv6.
+.It Ic fqdn Op disable | ptr | both
+ptr just asks the DHCP server to update the PTR
+record of the host in DNS whereas both also updates the A record.
+disable will disable the FQDN option.
+The default is both.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+itself never does any DNS updates.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+encodes the FQDN hostname as specified in
+.Li RFC1035 .
+.It Ic interface Ar interface
+Subsequent options are only parsed for this
+.Ar interface .
+.It Ic ipv6ra_fork
+By default, when
+.Nm dhcpcd
+receives an IPv6 RA,
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will only fork to the background if the RA contains at least one unexpired
+RDNSS option.
+Set this option so to make
+.Nm dhcpcd
+always fork on an RA.
+.It Ic ipv6ra_own
+Disables kernel IPv6 Router Advertisment processing so dhcpcd can manage
+addresses and routes.
+This does not work reliably on any BSD system, probably due to kernel issues.
+.It Ic ipv6ra_own_default
+Each time dhcpcd receives an IPv6 Router Adveristment, dhcpcd will manage
+the default route only.
+This allows dhcpcd to prefer an interface for outbound traffic based on metric
+and/or user selection rather than the kernel.
+This does work reliably on BSD systems.
+.It Ic ipv6rs
+Enables IPv6 Router Advertisment solicitation.
+This is on by default, but is documented here in the case where it is disabled
+globally but needs to be enabled for one interface.
+.It Ic leasetime Ar seconds
+Request a leasetime of
+.Ar seconds .
+.It Ic metric Ar metric
+Metrics are used to prefer an interface over another one, lowest wins.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will supply a default metric of 200 +
+.Xr if_nametoindex 3 .
+An extra 100 will be added for wireless interfaces.
+.It Ic noalias
+IPv4 addresses added will overwrite a pre-existing address instead of working
+alongside.
+.It Ic noarp
+Don't send any ARP requests.
+This also disables IPv4LL.
+.It Ic noauthrequired
+Don't require authentication even though we requested it.
+.It Ic nodev
+Don't load
+.Pa /dev
+management modules.
+.It Ic nodhcp
+Don't start DHCP or listen to DHCP messages.
+This is only useful when allowing IPv4LL.
+.It Ic nodhcp6
+Don't start DHCPv6 or listen to DHCPv6 messages.
+Normally DHCPv6 is started by a RA instruction or configuration.
+.It Ic nogateway
+Don't install any default routes.
+.It Ic nohook Ar script
+Don't run this hook script.
+Matches full name, or prefixed with 2 numbers optionally ending with
+.Pa .sh .
+.Pp
+So to stop
+.Nm dhcpcd
+from touching your DNS or MTU settings you would do:-
+.D1 nohook resolv.conf, mtu
+.It Ic noipv4
+Don't attempt to configure an IPv4 address.
+.It Ic noipv4ll
+Don't attempt to obtain an IPv4LL address if we failed to get one via DHCP.
+See
+.Rs
+.%T "RFC 3927"
+.Re
+.It Ic noipv6
+Don't attmept to configure an IPv6 address.
+.It Ic noipv6rs
+Disable solicitation and receipt of IPv6 Router Advertisements.
+.It Ic nolink
+Don't receive link messages about carrier status.
+You should only set this for buggy interface drivers.
+.It Ic option Ar option
+Requests the
+.Ar option
+from the server.
+It can be a variable to be used in
+.Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8
+or the numerical value.
+You can specify more
+.Ar option Ns s
+separated by commas, spaces or more
+.Ic option
+lines.
+Prepend dhcp6_ to
+.Ar option
+to request a DHCPv6 option.
+DHCPv4 options are mapped to DHCPv6 where applicable.
+.It Ic nooption Ar option
+Remove the option from the DHCP message.
+This should only be used when a DHCP server sends a non requested option
+that should not be processed.
+.It Ic destination Ar option
+If
+.Nm
+detects an address added to a point to point interface (PPP, TUN, etc) then
+it will set the listed DHCP options to the destination address of the
+interface.
+.It Ic profile Ar name
+Subsequent options are only parsed for this profile
+.Ar name .
+.It Ic quiet
+Suppress any dhcpcd output to the console, except for errors.
+.It Ic 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 dhcpcd
+to skip the REBOOT phase and go straight into DISCOVER.
+This is desirable for mobile users because if you change from network A to
+network B and they use the same subnet and the address from network A isn't
+in use on network B, then the DHCP server will remain silent even if authorative
+which means
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will timeout before moving back to the DISCOVER phase.
+.It Ic release
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will release the lease prior to stopping the interface.
+.It Ic require Ar option
+Requires the
+.Ar option
+to be present in all DHCP messages, otherwise the message is ignored.
+It can be a variable to be used in
+.Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8
+or the numerical value.
+You can specify more options separated by commas, spaces or more require lines.
+To enforce that
+.Nm dhcpcd
+only responds to DHCP servers and not BOOTP servers, you can
+.Ic require
+.Ar dhcp_message_type .
+.It Ic script Ar script
+Use
+.Ar script
+instead of the default
+.Pa @SCRIPT@ .
+.It Ic ssid Ar ssid
+Subsequent options are only parsed for this wireless
+.Ar ssid .
+.It Ic static Ar value
+Configures a static
+.Ar value .
+If you set
+.Ic ip_address
+then
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will not attempt to obtain a lease and just use the value for the address with
+an infinite lease time.
+.Pp
+Here is an example which configures a static address, routes and dns.
+.D1 interface eth0
+.D1 static ip_address=192.168.0.10/24
+.D1 static routers=192.168.0.1
+.D1 static domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1
+.Pp
+Here is an example for PPP which gives the destination a default route.
+It uses the special destination keyword to insert the destination address
+into the value.
+.D1 interface ppp0
+.D1 static ip_address=
+.D1 destination routers
+.It Ic timeout Ar seconds
+Timeout after
+.Ar seconds ,
+instead of the default 30.
+A setting of 0
+.Ar seconds
+causes
+.Nm dhcpcd
+to wait forever to get a lease.
+If
+.Nm dhcpcd
+is working on a single interface then
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will exit when a timeout occurs, otherwise
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will fork into the background.
+If using IPv4LL then
+.Nm dhcpcd
+start the IPv4LL process after the timeout and then wait a little longer
+before really timing out.
+.It Ic userclass Ar string
+Tag the DHCPv4 messages with the userclass.
+You can specify more than one.
+.It Ic 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.
+.Pp
+Set the vendor option 01 with an IP address.
+.D1 vendor 01,192.168.0.2
+Set the vendor option 02 with a hex code.
+.D1 vendor 02,01:02:03:04:05
+Set the vendor option 03 with an IP address as a string.
+.D1 vendor 03,\e"192.168.0.2\e"
+Set un-encapsulated vendor option to hello world.
+.D1 vendor ,"hello world"
+.It Ic vendorclassid Ar string
+Set the DHCP Vendor Class.
+DHCPv6 has it's own option as shown below.
+The default is
+dhcpcd-<version>:<os>:<machine>:<platform>.
+For example
+.D1 dhcpcd-5.5.6:NetBSD-6.99.5:i386:i386
+If not set then none is sent.
+Some badly configured DHCP servers reject unknown vendorclassids.
+To work around it, try and impersonate Windows by using the MSFT vendorclassid.
+.It Ic vendclass Ar en Ar data
+Add the DHCPv6 Vendor Indetifying Vendor Class with the IANA assigned Enterprise
+Number
+.Ar en
+with the
+.Ar data .
+This option can be set more than once to add more data, but the behaviour,
+as per
+.Xr RFC 3925
+is undefined if the Enterprise Number differs.
+.It Ic waitip Op 4 | 6
+Wait for an address to be assigned before forking to the background.
+4 means wait for an IPv4 address to be assigned.
+6 means wait for an IPv6 address to be assigned.
+If no argument is given,
+.Nm
+will wait for any address protocol to be assigned.
+It is possible to wait for more than one address protocol and
+.Nm
+will only fork to the background when all waiting conditions are satisfied.
+.It Ic xidhwaddr
+Use the last four bytes of the hardware address as the DHCP xid instead
+of a randomly generated number.
+.El
+.Ss Defining new options
+DHCP allows for the use of custom options.
+Each option needs to be started with the
+.Ic define
+or
+.Ic define6
+directive.
+This can optionally be followed by both
+.Ic embed
+or
+.Ic encap
+options.
+Both can be specified more than once and
+.Ic embed
+must come before
+.Ic encap .
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Ic define Ar code Ar type Ar variable
+Defines the DHCP option
+.Ar code
+of
+.Ar type
+with a name of
+.Ar variable
+exported to
+.Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 .
+.It Ic define6 Ar code Ar type Ar variable
+Defines the DHCPv6 option
+.Ar code
+of
+.Ar type
+with a name of
+.Ar variable
+exported to
+.Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8 ,
+with a prefix of
+.Va _dhcp6 .
+.It Ic vendopt Ar code Ar type Ar variable
+Defines the Vendor-Identifying Vendor Options.
+The
+.Ar code
+is the IANA Enterprise Number which will unqiuely describe the encapsulated
+options.
+.Ar type
+is normally
+.Ar encap .
+.Ar variable
+names the Vendor option to be exported.
+.It Ic embed Ar type Ar variable
+Defines an embedded variable within the defined option.
+The length is determined by the
+.Ar type .
+If the
+.Ar variable
+is not the same as defined in the parent option,
+it is prefixed with the parent
+.Ar variable
+first with an underscore.
+.It Ic encap Ar code Ar type Ar variable
+Defines an encapsulated variable within the defined option.
+The length is determined by the
+.Ar type .
+If the
+.Ar variable
+is not the same as defined in the parent option,
+it is prefixed with the parent
+.Ar variable
+first with an underscore.
+.El
+.Ss Type prefix
+These keywords come before the type itself, to describe it more fully.
+You can use more than one, but they must appear in the order listed below.
+.Bl -tag -width -indent
+.It Ic request
+Requests the option by default without having to be specified in user
+configuration
+.It Ic norequest
+This option cannot be requested, regardless of user configuration
+.It Ic index
+The option can appear more than once and will be indexed.
+.It Ic array
+The option data is split into a space seperated array, each element being
+the same type.
+.El
+.Ss Types to define
+The type directly affects the length of data consumed inside the option.
+Any remaining data is normally discarded.
+Lengths can be specified for string and binhex types, but this is generally
+with other data embedded afterwards in the same option.
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Ic ipaddress
+An IPv4 address, 4 bytes
+.It Ic ip6address
+An IPv6 address, 16 bytes
+.It Ic string Op : Ic length
+A shell escaped string (binary data escaped as octal)
+.It Ic byte
+A byte
+.It Ic int16
+A signed 16bit integer, 2 bytes
+.It Ic uint16
+An unsigned 16bit integer, 2 bytes
+.It Ic int32
+A signed 32bit integer, 4 bytes
+.It Ic uint32
+An unsigned 32bit integer, 4 bytes
+.It Ic flag
+A fixed value (1) to indicate that the option is present, 0 bytes
+.It Ic domain
+A RFC 3397 encoded string
+.It Ic binhex Op : Ic length
+Binary data expressed as hexadecimal
+.It Ic embed
+Contains embedded options (implies encap as well)
+.It Ic encap
+Contains encapsulated options (implies embed as well)
+.It Ic option
+References an option from the global definition
+.El
+.Ss Example definition
+.D1 # DHCP option 81, Fully Qualified Domain Name, RFC4702
+.D1 define 81 embed fqdn
+.D1 embed byte flags
+.D1 embed byte rcode1
+.D1 embed byte rcode2
+.D1 embed domain fqdn
+.Pp
+.D1 # DHCP option 125, Vendor Specific Information Option, RFC3925
+.D1 define 125 encap vsio
+.D1 embed uint32 enterprise_number
+.D1 # Options defined for the enterprise number
+.D1 encap 1 ipaddress ipaddress
+.Ss Supported protocols
+.Bl -tag -width -indent
+.It Ic token
+Sends and expects the token with the secretid 0 in each message.
+.It Ic delayedrealm
+Delayed Authentication.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will send an authentication option with no key or MAC.
+The server will see this option, and select a key for
+.Nm , writing the
+.Ar realm
+and
+.Ar secretid
+in it.
+.Nm dhcpcd
+will then look for a non-expired token with a matching realm and secretid.
+This token is used to authenicate all other messages.
+.It Ic delayed
+Same as above, but without a realm.
+.El
+.Ss Supported algorithms
+If none specified,
+.Ic hmac-md5
+is the default.
+.Bl -tag -width -indent
+.It Ic hmac-md5
+.El
+.Ss Supported Replay Detection Mechanisms
+If none specified,
+.Ic monotonic
+is the default.
+.Bl -tag -width -indent
+.It Ic monotonic
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr fnmatch 3 ,
+.Xr if_nametoindex 3 ,
+.Xr dhcpcd 8 ,
+.Xr dhcpcd-run-hooks 8
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Roy Marples Aq Mt roy@marples.name
+.Sh BUGS
+When configuring DHCPv6 you can only select one IA type.
+I can't think of a use case where you would want different types,
+so if you have one then please bring it up for discussion on the
+.Aq Mt dhcpcd-discuss@marples.name
+mailing list.
+.Pp
+Please report them to
+.Lk http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd