Linux › Section I · Your network and its configuration › Topic I.10
DHCP and automatic IPv6 configuration
Almost no Linux laptop has its address typed in by hand: it asks the network. This topic shows which programs on Linux do the asking for IPv4 and IPv6, how to read the leases and lifetimes they leave behind, and how to renew them when something goes wrong.
In this topic
- Back to the simple network
- DHCP in brief
- DHCP clients on Linux
- Seeing the lease
- Worked example: where is the lease?
- Renewing and troubleshooting
- Linux as a DHCP server
- IPv6: configuring without a server
- Worked example: reading SLAAC results
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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