NAME

       dhcpcd - a wrapper for the DHCP client daemon.

SYNOPSIS

       dhcpcd <option> <interface>

DESCRIPTION

       In  Debian,  the  DHCP  client  daemon binary is called dhcpcd-bin and it is invoked via a
       wrapper called dhcpcd. Dhcpcd is normally invoked by ifup(8)  but  ifup  only  allows  the
       setting  of  a limited number of dhcpcd command line flags. The dhcpcd wrapper reads extra
       flags from /etc/default/dhcpcd and then invokes dhcpcd-bin(8) It also adds the hostname as
       an  argument  to the command line, unless it is already set by ifup or /etc/default/dhcpcd
       or SET_HOSTNAME is configured. In that case there is no point in sending the old  hostname
       with  the  DHCP  request  when  it  will  be overridden by a new name supplied by the DHCP
       server.

       Note that the interface argument must be supplied, there is no default to  eth0  like  the
       unadorned dhcpcd binary.

SEE ALSO

       ifup(8) dhcpcd-bin(8)

AUTHORS

       Simon Kelley <srk@thekelleys.org.uk>