Devs, With ISC dhcpd now mature and frozen (end of life, but ISC will continue to make available on gitlab and if necessary provide bug fixes), the new ISC offering is Kea that is its successor to dhcpd. The wiki notes the successor in the first paragraph https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd but there is no Kea page and no indication if Arch will start packaging Kea. For those of us with long standing ISC bind/dhcpd setups what does the future look like on Arch? Will there be a Kea at some point? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 19/12/2023 21:19, David C. Rankin wrote:
Devs,
With ISC dhcpd now mature and frozen (end of life, but ISC will continue to make available on gitlab and if necessary provide bug fixes), the new ISC offering is Kea that is its successor to dhcpd.
The wiki notes the successor in the first paragraph https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd but there is no Kea page and no indication if Arch will start packaging Kea.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/kea/
For those of us with long standing ISC bind/dhcpd setups what does the future look like on Arch? Will there be a Kea at some point?
I'm using kea as dhcp server for quite a while, it's pretty easy to configure and is reliable as far as I can rate that in my small setup.
On 12/19/23 21:19, David C. Rankin wrote:
Devs,
With ISC dhcpd now mature and frozen (end of life, but ISC will continue to make available on gitlab and if necessary provide bug fixes), the new ISC offering is Kea that is its successor to dhcpd.
The wiki notes the successor in the first paragraph https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd but there is no Kea page and no indication if Arch will start packaging Kea.
For those of us with long standing ISC bind/dhcpd setups what does the future look like on Arch? Will there be a Kea at some point?
Kea is already in the repo [1] since 2017 [2] ;) I use it myself without any issue. [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/kea/ [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/kea/-/commit/98906... -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 14:19 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote
The wiki notes the successor in the first paragraph https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd but there is no Kea page and no indication if Arch will start packaging Kea.
Arch has been packaging kea for quite a long time actually 🙂 https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/kea/ Its also mentioned here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Router#DNS_and_DHCP
For those of us with long standing ISC bind/dhcpd setups what does the future look like on Arch? Will there be a Kea at some point?
I switched to kea some time back - it is a significant improvement including having support for primary, secondary (hot spare) and backup servers. They call it 'high availability' or HA. Not having a hot backup dhcp server can be pretty nasty if the one and only server becomes unavailable for some reason. It has been working well for me for quite some time now. Only thing a bit ugly was the complicated / duplicative configs - in which similar/same info needs to be provided for all 3 servers configs. I created a little tool to generate the 3 sets of configs from a single source file for my kea-dhcp4 servers (It's in aur) which cleaned things up nicely. gene
On 12/19/23 14:44, Robin Candau wrote:
Kea is already in the repo [1] since 2017 [2] ;) I use it myself without any issue.
Yes, I'm sorry, I found that with pacman -Ss and my fingers typed quicker than my brain. What I was concerned with is if there is an eminent plan to drop dhcpd? Just wanting to make sure there is time (not in the middle of a holiday season) to see how to integrate kea with bind along with dynamic updates to DNS, tsigs, etc... The lack of any wiki was the concern. Since I am used to being able to type any Archlinux package name into the wiki and have a page with concise information on how to install and configure the package. (maybe somebody already wrote a perfect wiki-page for it and it was automatically rolled-back and deleted?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 12/19/23 14:31, Giovanni Harting wrote:
I'm using kea as dhcp server for quite a while, it's pretty easy to configure and is reliable as far as I can rate that in my small setup.
Yes, hopefully ISC made is fairly compatible and straight-forward to transition, but holy cow, 2G for kea-docs? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 16:17 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Yes, hopefully ISC made is fairly compatible and straight-forward to transition, but holy cow, 2G for kea-docs?
The doc package includes both administrator and developer docs. The docs are quite extensive. You can see the admin docs online too (skip to chapter 4) https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.4.1/ gene
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