dhcp6leasectl(8)

dhcp6leasectl8

Control the dhcp6leased client

Usage

dhcp6leasectl [-l] [-s socket] [-w maxwait] interface

Overview

The dhcp6leasectl program instructs the dhcp6leased(8) daemon to request a new lease.

The following options are available:

-l

List the configured lease on interface instead of requesting a new lease.

-s socket

Use socket instead of the default /dev/dhcp6leased.sock to communicate with dhcp6leased(8).

-w maxwait

Specify the maximum number of seconds to wait for interface to be configured. The default is 10 seconds.

Files

/dev/dhcp6leased.sock

UNIX-domain socket used for communication with dhcp6leased(8).

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since OpenBSD 7.6.

  1. 7.6–8.0

History

The dhcp6leasectl program first appeared in OpenBSD 7.6.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.