// This is an example configuration file for the DHCPv6 server in Kea. // It contains configuration of the PostgreSQL host database backend, used // to retrieve reserved addresses, host names, DHCPv4 message fields // and DHCP options from PostgreSQL database. { "Dhcp6": { // 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" }, // This is pretty basic stuff, it has nothing to do with reservations. "preferred-lifetime": 3000, "valid-lifetime": 4000, "renew-timer": 1000, "rebind-timer": 2000, // Kea supports two types of identifiers in DHCPv6: hw-address // (hardware/MAC address of the client) and duid (DUID inserted by the // client). When told to do so, Kea can check for each of these // 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. "host-reservation-identifiers": [ "duid", "hw-address" ], // Specify connection to the database holding host reservations. The type // specifies that the PostgreSQL database is used. user and password are the // credentials used to connect to the database. host and name specify // location of the host where the database instance is running, and the // name of the database to use. The server processing a packet will first // check if there are any reservations specified for this client in the // reservations list, within the subnet (configuration file). If there are // no reservations there, the server will try to retrieve reservations // from this database. // The database specification can go into one hosts-database entry for // backward compatibility or be listed in hosts-databases list. "hosts-databases": [ { "type": "postgresql", "reconnect-wait-time": 3000, // expressed in ms "max-reconnect-tries": 3, "name": "keatest", "user": "keatest", "password": "keatest", "host": "localhost" } ], // Define a subnet with a pool of dynamic addresses and a pool of dynamic // prefixes. Addresses and prefixes from those pools will be assigned to // clients which don't have reservations in the database. Subnet identifier // is equal to 1. If this subnet is selected for the client, this subnet // id will be used to search for the reservations within the database. "subnet6": [ { "subnet": "2001:db8:1::/48", "pools": [ { "pool": "2001:db8:1::/80" } ], "pd-pools": [ { "prefix": "2001:db8:1:8000::", "prefix-len": 56, "delegated-len": 64 } ], "interface": "eth0", "id": 1 } ], // 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-dhcp6", "output-options": [ { "output": "stdout" } ], "debuglevel": 0, "severity": "INFO" } ] } }