<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Fred,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">David, a Unix Domain Socket sounds like a good fit. What I want to have happen<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">over the socket is for my application to mimic a DHCPv6 Client and request IA_NA<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and/or IA_PD delegations from kea acting as the DHCPv6 Server. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is that possible?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don't think this is possible. The only thing exposed via the unix socket is a control channel.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The actual implementation of DHCP will always require a network stack. </p><p class="MsoNormal">If you want to keep DHCPv6 communications local try to use localhost or virtual interfaces.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 2:42 PM Templin (US), Fred L <<a href="mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com">Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5828616658719006672">
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<p class="MsoNormal">David, a Unix Domain Socket sounds like a good fit. What I want to have happen<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">over the socket is for my application to mimic a DHCPv6 Client and request IA_NA<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and/or IA_PD delegations from kea acting as the DHCPv6 Server. Is that possible?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you - Fred<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> David Farje <<a href="mailto:davidabelfarje@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidabelfarje@gmail.com</a>> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 24, 2024 10:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kea user's list <<a href="mailto:kea-users@lists.isc.org" target="_blank">kea-users@lists.isc.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Templin (US), Fred L <<a href="mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com" target="_blank">Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Kea-users] Inter-process communication with the kea server?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Kea provides a control channel that supports Unix Domain Sockets which is a form of local inter-process communication.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">You'll be using a file to communicate with kea instead of the network. The file path can be configured in kea-dhcp6.conf<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt"> "control-socket": {<br>
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"socket-name": "/tmp/kea6-ctrl-socket"<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">You can send your JSON configs directly there.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hope this helps!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">David Farje<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 12:25 PM Templin (US), Fred L via Kea-users <<a href="mailto:kea-users@lists.isc.org" target="_blank">kea-users@lists.isc.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, I have an application that runs on the same system as the kea server from which I want<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to perform inter-process IPv6 address/prefix delegation requests with kea without having<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to engage the network stack. Does kea provide an API for inter-process communication in<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that way?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you - Fred<u></u><u></u></p>
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