How to view status of dhcp6c client?

luckman212

At first this seemed like a basic, almost silly question. But the more I dug at it the more lost I became.

I am trying to figure out how to check the remaining lease time of my dhcp6c client (enabled for one of my WANs). I can't seem to find anything in the GUI or on the filesystem anywhere that has any info/ lease/ timestamp/ etc. Does it even use the concept of a lease time? Or just run when it receives an RA?

Also can't see any way to make use of dhcp6ctl due to a missing key file. Is that tool even useful for anything? Thanks for any help.

luckman212

I found a way to kickstart dhcp6c w. php

include("interfaces.inc");
reset_dhcp6client_process();

also this old thread...
but still looking for better answers.

luckman212

related: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/vdrxkp/what_exactly_is_supposed_to_happen_when_pfsense/

and

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/172849/rtsold-not-running-ipv6-wan-dhcp-keeps-losing-connectivity