<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Ben<div><br></div><div>How about looking at the issue this like:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Dhcp client running on the gateway and also dhcp server on the same machine.</li><li>"Some" SW to look for changes in the client and pushing those to the server.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>This might be simpler as only the connector needs to be new. It could also be written in such a way that client and server could be on separate machines.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought.</div><div><br></div><div>
<span><font face="Courier">-- <br>Best regards <br>Sten Carlsen <br><br><br>Klein bottle for rent,<br>Enquire within.<br></font><br><br></span>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Jun 2026, at 15.04, Ben Scott <bscott@isc.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hello,<br><br>On 5/31/26 05:03, Gerson Brands via Kea-users wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Current Kea deployments assume statically configured pd-pools.<br></blockquote><br> Not really. The Kea API allows pools to be reconfigured dynamically.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The DHCPv6 server should be able to derive PD pools dynamically from<br>the currently active upstream delegated prefix instead of requiring<br>statically configured pd-pools or external configuration generation.<br></blockquote><br> What would this look like, to your mind?<br><br> Do you want Kea to incorporate a DHCPv6 client?<br><br> Do you want the Kea documentation to include examples of how to integrate third-party DHCPv6 clients with Kea, to automatically create PD pools in Kea? If so, do you want a generic example -- say, a script that takes a prefix and submits API commands to Kea? Or are you looking more for concrete examples for specific DHCPv6 clients? Or both?<br><br> Do you want the Internet engineering community to develop a standard mechanism to allow upstream-facing DHCPv6 clients to communicate PDs they receive to downstream-facing DHCPv6 servers?<br><br> I can write-up an issue for you, if you like, but first I have to know what you want.<br><br> -- Ben<br><br>-- <br>Ben Scott <bscott@isc.org><br>Support Engineer<br>Internet Systems Consortium<br><br>-- <br>ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information.<br><br>To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users.<br>Kea-users@lists.isc.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>