// This is an example configuration file for the DHCPv4 server in Kea. // It is a basic scenario with one IPv4 subnet configured and with DDNS // enabled. { "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 // June 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, // The following list defines subnets. We have only one subnet // here. We tell Kea that it is directly available over local interface. "subnet4": [ { "pools": [ { "pool": "192.0.2.1 - 192.0.2.200" } ], "subnet": "192.0.2.0/24", "interface": "eth0" } ], // Enable connectivity with kea-dhcp-ddns // (Required for dynamic DNS updates) "dhcp-ddns" : { "enable-updates" : true, "server-ip" : "192.0.2.0", "server-port" : 3432, "sender-ip" : "192.0.2.1", "sender-port" : 3433, "max-queue-size" : 2048, "ncr-protocol" : "UDP", "ncr-format" : "JSON" }, // Enable DDNS updates and configure DDNS update behavior "ddns-send-updates" : true, "ddns-override-no-update" : true, "ddns-override-client-update" : true, "ddns-replace-client-name" : "when-present", "ddns-generated-prefix" : "test.prefix", "ddns-qualifying-suffix" : "test.suffix.", "ddns-update-on-renew" : false, "ddns-use-conflict-resolution" : true, "hostname-char-set": "[^A-Za-z0-9.-]", "hostname-char-replacement": "x", // 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" } ] } }