[Kea-users] Problems moving from ISC-DHCP to Kea

[Darren Ankney]

Hi Mike,

If your reservations are in the global area of the configuration, then
you would need to set `"reservations-global": true` which defaults to
false.  Kea will not find your global reservations otherwise.  For
full details about reservations in Kea, see here:
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-3.0.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#host-reservations-in-dhcpv4

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM Mike Lieberman <mike at netwright.net> wrote:
>
> I have been using ISC-DHCP for years. I am a complete novice with Kea.
>
> I installed Kea 3.0.0 in a Debian 12 server. I migrated my large dhcp.conf via the ISC migration tool (successfully) and install the kea-dhcp4.conf file in the /etc/kea folder.
>
> I did run kea-admin -n with kea-dhcp4.conf and it took it. Testing showed that the service was live via dhcpdump.
>
> But the kea server is not serving up the reservation IP addresses that were migrated.  I don't have any scripts.
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