DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a network management protocol for assigning IP addresses and other configurations to hosts on the network.
IP6M DHCP server function is provided by the ISC Dhcpd v4.4 package, found in the Ubuntu Linux distribution. It has two separated process for IPv4 and IPv6, differentiated by the -4 and -6 command line options.
The two processes listed by the "ps" command:
dhcpd -user dhcpd -group dhcpd -f -4 -pf /run/dhcp-server/dhcpd.pid -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf dhcpd -user dhcpd -group dhcpd -f -6 -pf /run/dhcp-server/dhcpd6.pid -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf
The two server can be controlled independently by the following commands:
# service isc-dhcp-server [start|stop|restart] # service isc-dhcp-server6 [start|stop|restart]
The next pages show the detailed configurations.