[kea-dev] Managing host reservations dynamically?

[Angelo Failla]

We did that in Facebook:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon15europe/program/presentation/failla

But it requires C++ knowledge to write a hook library that can be loaded dynamically by the server.
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Angelo Failla

Cluster Infrastructure - Dublin
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On 11/27/15, 4:43 PM, "kea-dev-bounces at lists.isc.org on behalf of Brian Rak" <kea-dev-bounces at lists.isc.org on behalf of brak at gameservers.com> wrote:

>Is there any way I can set DHCPv4 mac -> ip address reservations 
>dynamically?  I have an environment where I pre-configure any possible 
>DHCP lease, but these configurations can come and go at any time 
>(providing DHCP to virtual machines - our management systems dictate 
>which IP a particular VM uses, but the easiest way of configuring the VM 
>is with DHCP).
>
>I looked at the control-socket feature, but this seems to be limited to 
>just statistics related commands (at least as of 0.9.2).
>
>One option I might have is to use the 'Host Reservations in MySQL' 
>feature that might be in 1.0, but I'd really prefer to not have to run a 
>bunch of MySQL servers in order to achieve this. (management of all the 
>necessary MySQL instances would be time consuming).
>
>It looks like my best bet right now is to just modify the Kea config 
>file and issue a reload.  Is there any downside to doing this regularly?
>
>Is there a better approach here?
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