.It Ic reboot Ar seconds
Allow
.Ar reboot
-seconds before moving to the DISCOVER phase if we have an old lease to use
-and moving from DISCOVER to IPv4LL if no reply.
+seconds before moving to the DISCOVER phase if we have an old lease to use.
+Allow
+.Ar reboot
+seconds before starting fallback states from the DISCOVER phase.
+IPv4LL is started when the first
+.Ar reboot
+timeout is reached.
The default is 5 seconds.
A setting of 0 seconds causes
-.Nm dhcpcd
-to skip the REBOOT phase and go straight into DISCOVER.
+.Nm
+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
authoritative which means
.Nm dhcpcd
will timeout before moving back to the DISCOVER phase.
+This has no effect on DHCPv6 other than skipping the reboot phase.
.It Ic release
.Nm dhcpcd
will release the lease prior to stopping the interface.