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

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi

On 5/27/25 09:33, Thomas Lange wrote:
> 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?

we are currently migrating to dnsmasq as after looking at kea and 
deciding it was way too complex for ust, especially lacking a simple 
interface to DB held configuration.

Also, given we have a large-ish number of hosts/interfaces to serve (3 
per host quickly adds up), it was never really clear to me, whether we 
had to pay for the number of active leases we would need.

Thus, we started the very slow/sluggish migrating from feeding dnsmasq 
via netbox with a bunch of self-written scripts/services which sort of 
works for now.

HTH

Carsten

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Dr. Carsten Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
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