-.\" $Id: dhclient.conf.5,v 1.25.24.2 2010/04/26 21:22:10 sar Exp $
+.\" $Id: dhclient.conf.5,v 1.25.24.3 2010/04/27 22:19:16 sar Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009-2010 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
.\" Copyright (c) 2004,2007 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
The request statement causes the client to request that any server
responding to the client send the client its values for the specified
options. Only the option names should be specified in the request
-statement - not option parameters. By default, the DHCP server
+statement - not option parameters. By default, the DHCPv4 client
requests the subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
-domain-name, domain-name-servers and host-name options. Note that if
-you enter a 'request' statement, you over-ride this default and these
-options will not be requested.
+domain-name, domain-name-servers and host-name options while the DHCPv6
+client requests the dhcp6 name-servers and domain-search options. Note
+that if you enter a 'request' statement, you over-ride these defaults
+and these options will not be requested.
.PP
In some cases, it may be desirable to send no parameter request list
at all. To do this, simply write the request statement but specify
obvious use for this statement is to send information to the server
that will allow it to differentiate between this client and other
clients or kinds of clients.
-.SH DHCPV6 OPERATION
-The client does not yet have a default DHCPv6 Option Request Option (ORO),
-nor has it been integrated with the 'request' and 'require' syntax above.
-It is neccessary to configure an ORO then.
-.PP
-.nf
- send dhcp6.oro 1, 2, 7, 12, 13, 23, 24, 39;
-.fi
-.PP
-The above ORO will request both identifiers (server, client), the preference,
-unicast, nameservers, domain-search, and FQDN(v6) options.
.SH DYNAMIC DNS
The client now has some very limited support for doing DNS updates
when a lease is acquired. This is prototypical, and probably doesn't