[Kea-users] The client class design in newer kea versions - 3.0.0

[Darren Ankney]

Hi,

Kea will evaluate all classes.  It won't stop when a match is
encountered.  Clients can be members of multiple classes.  It will be
difficult to help without seeing your configuration, logs and a packet
capture of the client that is not matching the class.

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM tachibanashita at outlook.com
<tachibanashita at outlook.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> Last year, I tested on kea 2.6.2 with two different client classes Client_class1 and Client_class2 with similar configurations but slightly different, then I found my devices couldn’t match the Client_class2 even it should match all the criteria. Some other kea users told me that it was because I defined the Client_class1 configuration first then the Client_class2 configuration. So when the device came online, kea detects it match the criteria of Client_class1 first, so it won’t check the rest of similar client classes.
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> I am wondering if you have made some improvement on this and allow kea to match the most satisfying client class instead of the 1st defined one? Thank you.
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