Annotation of embedaddon/dnsmasq/contrib/wrt/dhcp_release.1, revision 1.1
1.1 ! misho 1: .TH DHCP_RELEASE 1
! 2: .SH NAME
! 3: dhcp_release \- Release a DHCP lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server.
! 4: .SH SYNOPSIS
! 5: .B dhcp_release <interface> <address> <MAC address> <client_id>
! 6: .SH "DESCRIPTION"
! 7: A utility which forces the DHCP server running on this machine to release a
! 8: DHCP lease.
! 9: .PP
! 10: Send a DHCPRELEASE message via the specified interface to tell the
! 11: local DHCP server to delete a particular lease.
! 12:
! 13: The interface argument is the interface in which a DHCP
! 14: request _would_ be received if it was coming from the client,
! 15: rather than being faked up here.
! 16:
! 17: The address argument is a dotted-quad IP addresses and mandatory.
! 18:
! 19: The MAC address is colon separated hex, and is mandatory. It may be
! 20: prefixed by an address-type byte followed by -, eg
! 21:
! 22: 10-11:22:33:44:55:66
! 23:
! 24: but if the address-type byte is missing it is assumed to be 1, the type
! 25: for ethernet. This encoding is the one used in dnsmasq lease files.
! 26:
! 27: The client-id is optional. If it is "*" then it treated as being missing.
! 28: .SH NOTES
! 29: MUST be run as root - will fail otherwise.
! 30: .SH SEE ALSO
! 31: .BR dnsmasq (8)
! 32: .SH AUTHOR
! 33: This manual page was written by Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>.
! 34:
! 35:
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