dibbler-server8

Usage

Overview

dibbler-server is a portable implementation of the DHCPv6 server. It supports both stateful (i.e. IPv6 address granting) and stateless (i.e. options granting) autoconfiguration. There are ports available for Linux 2.4/2.6 systems as well as MS Windows XP and 2003. They are freely available under GNU GPL version 2 (or later) license.

Options

run - starts server in the console. Server can be closed using ctrl-c.

start - starts server in daemon mode.

stop - stops running server.

status - shows status of the server.

install - installs server as a service. This is not implemented yet.

uninstall - uninstall server service. This is not implemented yet.

Examples

Let's assume simple case: server should provide clients located on the eth1 link with IPv6 addresses from range 2000::100/120 and should have preference set to 7:

iface eth0
{ 
  preference 7
  class
  {
    pool 2000::100-2000::1ff
  } 
}

Here is exmaple of server configured to work in a stateless mode (i.e. only options, not addresses are served). If client support option renewal, it should do so once in a 500 seconds:

log-level 7
log-mode short
stateless
iface eth0 {
  option dns-server 2000::100,2000::101
  option domain example.com, test1.example.com
  option ntp-server 2000::200,2000::201,2000::202
  option time-zone  CET
  option sip-server 2000::300,2000::302,2000::303,2000::304
  option sip-domain sip1.example.com,sip2.example.com
  option nis-server 2000::400,2000::401,2000::404,2000::405,2000::405
  option nis-domain nis.example.com
  option nis+-server 2000::501,2000::502
  option nis+-domain nisplus.example.com
  option lifetime 500
}

More examples can be found in the User's Guide.

Files

All files are created in the /var/lib/dibbler directory. Dibbler server reads /var/lib/dibbler/server.conf file. During operation, Dibbler saves various file in that directory. Log file is named client.log.