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+// This is an example configuration file for the DHCPv4 server in Kea.
+// It contains one subnet in which there are two static address reservations
+// for the clients identified by the MAC addresses.
+{ "Dhcp4":
+
+{
+// Kea is told to listen on eth0 interface only.
+ "interfaces-config": {
+ "interfaces": [ "eth0" ]
+ },
+
+// We need to specify the database used to store leases. As of April
+// 2022, three database backends are supported: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and the
+// in-memory database, Memfile. We'll use memfile because it doesn't
+// require any prior set up.
+ "lease-database": {
+ "type": "memfile",
+ "lfc-interval": 3600
+ },
+
+// Addresses will be assigned with a lifetime of 4000 seconds.
+ "valid-lifetime": 4000,
+
+// Renew and rebind timers are commented out. This implies that options
+// 58 and 59 will not be sent to the client. In this case it is up to
+// the client to pick the timer values according to RFC2131. Uncomment the
+// timers to send these options to the client.
+// "renew-timer": 1000,
+// "rebind-timer": 2000,
+
+// Kea supports reservations by several different types of identifiers:
+// hw-address (hardware/MAC address of the client), duid (DUID inserted by the
+// client), client-id (client identifier inserted by the client), circuit-id
+// (circuit identifier inserted by the relay agent) and flex-id (flexible
+// identifier available when flex_id hook library is loaded). When told to do
+// so, Kea can check for all of those identifier types, but it takes a costly
+// database lookup to do so. It is therefore useful from a performance
+// perspective to use only the reservation types that are actually used in a
+// given network.
+
+// The example below is not optimal from a performance perspective, but it
+// nicely showcases the host reservation capabilities. Please use the minimum
+// set of identifier types used in your network.
+"host-reservation-identifiers": [ "circuit-id", "hw-address", "duid",
+ "client-id", "flex-id" ],
+
+// Define a subnet with four reservations. Some of the reservations belong
+// to the dynamic pool. Kea is able to handle this case, but it is not
+// recommended from a performance perspective, as Kea would not only need to
+// check if a given address is free, but also whether it is reserved.
+// To avoid this check, one can change reservation-mode to out-of-pool, rather
+// than 'all'. If a subnet does not have reservations at all, the reservation
+// lookup can be skipped altogether (reservation-mode is set to 'disabled').
+// The reservation-mode has been replaced by reservations-global,
+// reservations-in-subnet and reservations-out-of-pool.
+
+// Note that the second reservation is for an address which is within the
+// range of the pool of the dynamically allocated address. The server will
+// exclude this address from this pool and only assign it to the client which
+// has a reservation for it.
+ "subnet4": [
+ {
+ "pools": [ { "pool": "192.0.2.1 - 192.0.2.200" } ],
+ "subnet": "192.0.2.0/24",
+ "interface": "eth0",
+ // This directive tells Kea that reservations may be made both in-pool
+ // and out-of-pool. For improved performance, you may move all reservations
+ // out of the dynamic pool and change reservation-mode to "out-of-pool".
+ // Kea will then be able to skip querying for host reservations when
+ // assigning leases from dynamic pool.
+ // "reservation-mode": "all",
+ // It is replaced by the "reservations-global", "reservations-in-subnet"
+ // and "reservations-out-of-pool" parameters.
+
+ // Specify if server should lookup global reservations.
+ "reservations-global": false,
+
+ // Specify if server should lookup in-subnet reservations.
+ "reservations-in-subnet": true,
+
+ // Specify if server can assume that all reserved addresses
+ // are out-of-pool.
+ // Ignored when reservations-in-subnet is false.
+ // If specified, it is inherited by "shared-networks" and
+ // "subnet4" levels.
+ "reservations-out-of-pool": false,
+
+ "reservations": [
+
+// This is a reservation for a specific hardware/MAC address. It's a very
+// simple reservation: just an address and nothing else.
+ {
+ "hw-address": "1a:1b:1c:1d:1e:1f",
+ "ip-address": "192.0.2.201"
+ },
+
+// This is a reservation for a specific client-id. It also shows
+// the this client will get a reserved hostname. A hostname can be defined
+// for any identifier type, not just client-id.
+ {
+ "client-id": "01:11:22:33:44:55:66",
+ "ip-address": "192.0.2.202",
+ "hostname": "special-snowflake"
+ },
+
+// The third reservation is based on DUID. This reservation also
+// defines special option values for this particular client. If
+// the domain-name-servers option would have been defined on a global,
+// subnet or class level, the host specific values take preference.
+ {
+ "duid": "01:02:03:04:05",
+ "ip-address": "192.0.2.203",
+ "option-data": [ {
+ "name": "domain-name-servers",
+ "data": "10.1.1.202,10.1.1.203"
+ } ]
+ },
+
+// The fourth reservation is based on circuit-id. This is an option inserted
+// by the relay agent that forwards the packet from client to the server.
+// In this example the host is also assigned vendor specific options.
+ {
+ "circuit-id": "01:11:22:33:44:55:66",
+ "ip-address": "192.0.2.204",
+ "option-data": [
+ {
+ "name": "vivso-suboptions",
+ "data": "4491"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "tftp-servers",
+ "space": "vendor-4491",
+ "data": "10.1.1.202,10.1.1.203"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+// This reservation is for a client that needs specific DHCPv4 fields to be
+// set. Three supported fields are next-server, server-hostname and
+// boot-file-name
+ {
+ "client-id": "01:0a:0b:0c:0d:0e:0f",
+ "ip-address": "192.0.2.205",
+ "next-server": "192.0.2.1",
+ "server-hostname": "hal9000",
+ "boot-file-name": "/dev/null"
+ },
+
+// This reservation is using flexible identifier. Instead of relying
+// on specific field, sysadmin can define an expression similar to what
+// is used for client classification,
+// e.g. substring(relay[0].option[17],0,6). Then, based on the value of
+// that expression for incoming packet, the reservation is matched.
+// Expression can be specified either as hex or plain text using single
+// quotes.
+// Note: flexible identifier requires flex_id hook library to be
+// loaded to work.
+ {
+ "flex-id": "'s0mEVaLue'",
+ "ip-address": "192.0.2.206"
+ }
+
+ ]
+ }
+ ],
+
+// The following configures logging. It assumes that messages with at
+// least informational level (info, warn, error and fatal) should be
+// logged to stdout.
+ "loggers": [
+ {
+ "name": "kea-dhcp4",
+ "output_options": [
+ {
+ "output": "stdout"
+ }
+ ],
+ "severity": "INFO"
+ }
+ ]
+}
+
+}