dhcp_iaid

A string containing the "Identity Association Identifier" (IAID) used by the DHCP client.

The string can be a 32-bit number (either decimal, hexadecimal or as colon separated hexadecimal numbers). Alternatively it can be set to the special values "mac", "perm-mac", "ifname" or "stable". When set to "mac" (or "perm-mac"), the last 4 bytes of the current (or permanent) MAC address are used as IAID. When set to "ifname", the IAID is computed by hashing the interface name. The special value "stable" can be used to generate an IAID based on the stable-id (see connection.stable-id), a per-host key and the interface name. When the property is unset, the value from global configuration is used; if no global default is set then the IAID is assumed to be "ifname".

For DHCPv4, the IAID is only used with "ipv4.dhcp-client-id" values "duid" and "ipv6-duid" to generate the client-id.

For DHCPv6, note that at the moment this property is only supported by the "internal" DHCPv6 plugin. The "dhclient" DHCPv6 plugin always derives the IAID from the MAC address.

The actually used DHCPv6 IAID for a currently activated interface is exposed in the lease information of the device.