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                 disables the configuration file entirely.</para>
 
                 <refsect2><title>Virtual Network Devices</title>
-                        <para>Netdev files must have the extension <filename>.netdev</filename>;
-                        other extensions are ignored. Virtual network devices are created as soon
-                        as networkd is started.</para>
+                        <para>Virtual Network Device files must have the extension
+                        <filename>.netdev</filename>; other extensions are ignored. Virtual
+                        network devices are created as soon as networkd is started.</para>
 
-                        <para>The <literal>[Bridge]</literal> section accepts the following
+                        <para>The <literal>[NetDev]</literal> section accepts the following
                         keys:</para>
 
                         <variablelist class='network-directives'>
                                                 bridge. This option is compulsory.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>Kind</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>The netdev kind. Currently, 'bridge', 'bond' and 'vlan'
+                                                are supported. This option is compulsory.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
                         </variablelist>
+
+                        <para>The <literal>[VLAN]</literal> section only applies for netdevs of kind 'vlan',
+                        and accepts the following keys:</para>
+
+                        <variablelist class='network-directives'>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>Id</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>The VLAN ID to use. An integer in the range 0–4094.
+                                                This option is compulsory.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+                        </variablelist>
+
                 </refsect2>
 
                 <refsect2><title>Networks</title>
                                                 presentation purposes.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>DHCP</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>A boolean. When true, enables basic DHCPv4 support.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>Address</varname></term>
                                         <listitem>
                                                 . This is a short-hand for a [Route] section only containing a Gateway key.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>DNS</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>A DNS server address, which must be in the format described in
+                                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>inet_pton</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                                .</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>Bridge</varname></term>
                                         <listitem>
-                                                <para>The name of the bridge to add the configured link to.</para>
+                                                <para>The name of the bridge to add the link to.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>Bond</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>The name of the bond to add the link to.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>VLAN</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>The name of a VLAN to create on the link. This option
+                                                may be specified more than once.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
                         </variablelist>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>Address</varname></term>
                                         <listitem>
-                                                <para>As in the <literal>[Network]</literal> section.</para>
+                                                <para>As in the <literal>[Network]</literal> section. This key is mandatory.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>Gateway</varname></term>
                                         <listitem>
-                                                <para>As in the <literal>[Network]</literal> section.</para>
+                                                <para>As in the <literal>[Network]</literal> section. This key is mandatory.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                                 prefixlength, if ommitted a full-length host route is assumed.</para>
                                         </listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
+                        </variablelist>
+
+                        <para>The <literal>[DHCPv4]</literal> section accepts the following keys:</para>
+
+                        <variablelist class='network-directives'>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>UseDNS</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>When true (the default), the DNS servers received from the DHCP server will
+                                                be used and take precedence over any statically configured ones.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>UseMTU</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>When true, the interface maximum transmission unit from the DHCP server will
+                                                be used on the current link. Defaults to false.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>UseHostname</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>When true (the default), the hostname received from the DHCP server
+                                                will be used as the transient hostname.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>CriticalConnection</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem>
+                                                <para>When true, the connection will never be torn down even if the DHCP lease
+                                                expires. This is contrary to the DHCP specification, but may be the best choice
+                                                if, say, the root filesystem relies on this connection. Defaults to false.</para>
+                                        </listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
                        </variablelist>
+
                 </refsect2>
         </refsect1>