[Kea-users] Using Host Reservations in Kea

Marcin Siodelski marcin at isc.org
Wed Jun 22 15:39:14 UTC 2016


On 22.06.2016 17:31, Thomas Andersen wrote:
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> On 22/06/16 17:24, "kea-users-bounces at lists.isc.org on behalf of Templin, Fred L" <kea-users-bounces at lists.isc.org on behalf of Fred.L.Templin at boeing.com> wrote:
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> > This is the case we are interested in - many kea servers connected to the
> > single database. We want that each server will then have consistent host
> > reservation information for the clients that may come to them for service.
> >
> > This means that the site administrators will only need to add and remove
> > host reservations in a single database rather than having to push the same
> > information into multiple places, which I think would ease administrative
> > overhead and be less prone to errors. Sounds like this should work with
> > the new features kea 1.1.0 will be providing?
>
>
> This is what we do today in our installation with 1.0.0
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>
> /Thomas
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>
One thing to say about Kea 1.0.0 is that it doesn't allow you to specify DHCP options per host. It also doesn't work with IPv6 reservations in the database. Kea 1.1.0 will also use database more efficiently, by reducing the number of queries made to the database to retrieve host information.

Marcin



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