[Kea-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Inter-process communication with the kea server?

[Templin (US), Fred L]

David, a Unix Domain Socket sounds like a good fit. What I want to have happen
over the socket is for my application to mimic a DHCPv6 Client and request IA_NA
and/or IA_PD delegations from kea acting as the DHCPv6 Server. Is that possible?

Thank you - Fred

From: David Farje <davidabelfarje at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 10:03 AM
To: Kea user's list <kea-users at lists.isc.org>
Cc: Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin at boeing.com>
Subject: Re: [Kea-users] Inter-process communication with the kea server?

Kea provides a control channel that supports Unix Domain Sockets which is a form of local inter-process communication.
You'll be using a file to communicate with kea instead of the network.  The file path can be configured in kea-dhcp6.conf

    "control-socket": {
        "socket-type": "unix",
        "socket-name": "/tmp/kea6-ctrl-socket"
    },

You can send your JSON configs directly there.

Hope this helps!
David Farje


On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 12:25 PM Templin (US), Fred L via Kea-users <kea-users at lists.isc.org<mailto:kea-users at lists.isc.org>> wrote:
Hi, I have an application that runs on the same system as the kea server from which I want
to perform inter-process IPv6 address/prefix delegation requests with kea without having
to engage the network stack. Does kea provide an API for inter-process communication in
that way?

Thank you - Fred
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