From 095f62551fa152cd090de81f32af2dcdb58e88e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Kelley Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:31:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update manpage for --dhcp-authoritative DHCPv6 behaviour. --- man/dnsmasq.8 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8 index 867d0d2..b8dcfc7 100644 --- a/man/dnsmasq.8 +++ b/man/dnsmasq.8 @@ -1122,12 +1122,13 @@ create thousands of leases and use lots of memory in the dnsmasq process. .TP .B \-K, --dhcp-authoritative -(IPv4 only) Should be set when dnsmasq is definitely the only DHCP server on a network. -It changes the behaviour from strict RFC compliance so that DHCP requests on +Should be set when dnsmasq is definitely the only DHCP server on a network. +For DHCPv4, it changes the behaviour from strict RFC compliance so that DHCP requests on unknown leases from unknown hosts are not ignored. This allows new hosts to get a lease without a tedious timeout under all circumstances. It also allows dnsmasq to rebuild its lease database without each client needing to -reacquire a lease, if the database is lost. +reacquire a lease, if the database is lost. For DHCPv6 it sets the +priority in replies to 255 (the maximum) instead of 0 (the minimum). .TP .B --dhcp-alternate-port[=[,]] (IPv4 only) Change the ports used for DHCP from the default. If this option is