Who is using the ISC DHCP server in their FAI environment?

[Diego Zuccato]

Hi.

I already tried migrating to kea and it's been quite a pain in the a$$ 
(quite a lot of work). Quickly returned to the default.
Also, does not bode well with centralized management (Salt, in my case), 
unless I missed something.
If ISC DHCP can't be kept, amen. It will be quite a lot of work.
If needed, I can try to recover the Kea config files I was testing.

Diego

Il 27/05/2025 09:33, Thomas Lange ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I like to know who is using the DHCP server from ISC when doing a FAI
> network installation. Debian plans to remove this package for the
> upcoming release (trixie) and I'm not sure how much work it may cause
> to sysadmin to migrate to a replacement, for e.g. the new DHCPD from
> ISC called kea.
> 
> Did anyone already migrated to kea?
> Do you think you can easily migrate to kea or dnsmasq or other
> packages?
> 
> Currently FAI provides examples for the dhcpd.conf for ISC dhcp, but
> if Debian removes the isc dhcp package, I cannot provide a working
> config for the trixie release in time and FAI users have to do it on
> their own.
> 
> I'll try to convince the Debian release team to keep ISC dhcp for the
> trixie release, but some people want to remove it , because it's EOL
> and there will be no security support by Debian any more.
> 
> What's your oppinion on that?

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