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

[CSCI Technician]

Hi Thomas,

[I initially accidentally replied to just Thomas, replying to the list 
for the benefit of the community conversation.]

We currently run ISC also. We looked at KEA as it was the recommended 
option in opnsense. However, in researching KEA we read about enough 
problems that we decided it was not mature enough. We were going to stay 
with ISC for the time being and review KEA again in a year.

ISC not being available in trixie and/or supported by FAI will 
definitely have an impact and cause work.

Cheers,
Merlin.

On 5/27/25 00:33, Thomas Lange wrote:
> 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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