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<p class="MsoNormal">David, a Unix Domain Socket sounds like a good fit. What I want to have happen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">over the socket is for my application to mimic a DHCPv6 Client and request IA_NA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and/or IA_PD delegations from kea acting as the DHCPv6 Server. Is that possible?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you - Fred<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> David Farje <davidabelfarje@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 24, 2024 10:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kea user's list <kea-users@lists.isc.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Kea-users] Inter-process communication with the kea server?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Kea provides a control channel that supports Unix Domain Sockets which is a form of local inter-process communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">You'll be using a file to communicate with kea instead of the network. The file path can be configured in kea-dhcp6.conf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> "control-socket": {<br>
"socket-type": "unix",<br>
"socket-name": "/tmp/kea6-ctrl-socket"<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">You can send your JSON configs directly there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hope this helps!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">David Farje<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 12:25 PM Templin (US), Fred L via Kea-users <<a href="mailto:kea-users@lists.isc.org">kea-users@lists.isc.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi, I have an application that runs on the same system as the kea server from which I want<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">to perform inter-process IPv6 address/prefix delegation requests with kea without having<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">to engage the network stack. Does kea provide an API for inter-process communication in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">that way?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thank you - Fred<o:p></o:p></p>
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