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Hi,</div>
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For that purpose we have defined a class where we test the mac address like:</div>
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"test": "(pkt4.mac == 0x000012345678 or pkt4.mac == 0x000012345679 or ...)"</div>
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More in <a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAb9827e8c-3ce1-841a-81c0-824daf5a6be9" href="https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/classify.html#configuring-classes">
16. Client Classification — Kea 3.1.5 documentation</a> </div>
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Hope it helps.</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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Veronique</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 16, 2025 12:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kea user's list <kea-users@lists.isc.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> lejeczek <peljasz@yahoo.co.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Kea-users] group by mac addresses ?</font>
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<div class="x_moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch">Hi guys.<br>
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I had in my old dhcpd this, which I believed worked:<br>
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group {<br>
# VMware<br>
ignore client-updates;<br>
deny client-updates;<br>
ddns-domainname "vmware.mine"; # this is critical regardless of the rest, for DDNS<br>
option fqdn.no-client-update true;<br>
option fqdn.server-update true;<br>
option fqdn.fqdn "vmware.mine";<br>
option domain-name "vmware.mine";<br>
default-lease-time 86400;<br>
max-lease-time 86400;<br>
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host hub.vcentre.vmware {<br>
hardware ethernet 02:98:1b:6d:36:12;<br>
fixed-address 10.3.1.230;<br>
option host-name "vcenter";<br>
}<br>
host vcenter.vmware {<br>
hardware ethernet 02:02:bf:56:c0:a0;<br>
fixed-address 10.1.1.230;<br>
option host-name "vcenter";<br>
}<br>
host hub.esx1.vmware {<br>
hardware ethernet 02:9d:f7:79:a7:17;<br>
fixed-address 10.3.1.231;<br>
option host-name "esx1";<br>
}<br>
....<br>
...<br>
}<br>
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Simple idea there was to have a group of hosts qualified by their mac addresses, then such group would share some options.<br>
I've not started using Kea yet and cannot figure out how such logic can be realized in Kea - would some experts mind shading some light on how this is done?<br>
many thanks, L. </font> </div>
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