Kea DHCP - Spawning client classes and limiting IP addresses

[Greg Choules]

Hi Jason.
I suggest you try dhcp-users at lists.isc.org rather than bind-users.

Also I would paste actual text, rather than screenshots of text.

Cheers, Greg

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 15:50, Jason Creviston <jcreviston at weendeavor.com>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> New to Kea and trying to get class spawning to work. This was easy to
> figure out and setup with the EOL'd ISC DHCP server software, but having
> trouble getting it to work in Kea.
>
> I'm testing using three laptops, and all three are getting IPs. I'm trying
> to limit IPs to two. I saw in the docs that this mechanism doesn't work
> 100% under heavy load, but I'm literally just testing with three devices -
> no other devices are using the server.
>
> Anything look incorrect or missing?
>
> Not sure if inlined images will be preserved or attached, but below is a
> partial config of trying to spawn classes based on dhcp option 82 info.
>
>
> I read that the order of hooks is important, so I have it towards the top:
>
> And here is a look at the user context in the leases file. They all appear
> to have the same content - which I'd expect when they're all behind a
> single ONT device (implying the same option 82 info):
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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