[ale] Need a better DHCP server than ISC's

[Alex Carver]

With the exception of the direct SQL integration how does it not meet
the rest of the requirements?  I pointed to the method to duplicate
ISC's shared network feature in dnsmasq specific format and I know it's
able to send arbitrary strings for any DHCP option of your choosing
(because I do so already).

For the reservations it does currently use a file though people have
made various workarounds to store data in SQL and autogenerate the files
from that.

On 2017-02-10 06:41, James Sumners wrote:
> dnsmasq doesn't even come close to meeting the requirements.
> 
> For now, I've gone back to ancient ISC DHCP with include files for reservations. 
> There's some discussion on the Kea users mailing list about overcoming the 
> shortcomings I have encountered. I just don't have time to deal with them right now.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
> <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2017-02-07 12:47, James Sumners wrote:
>     > I need a DHCP server that allows me to reserve addresses in a database;
>     > preferably PostgreSQL. Storing leases in the database would also be fantastic.
>     > But I have two bigger requirements:
>     >
>     > 1. it needs to support shared subnets, e.g. the "shared-network" feature of ISC DHCP
>     > 2. it needs to support sending strings with commas for options 172 and 242
>     >
>     > I've been trying out Kea for the past month or so. It's mostly great, but I just
>     > found out that it doesn't support shared subnets. So I can't use it.
>     >
>     > Anyone have any OSS suggestions?
> 
>     Try dnsmasq
> 
>     There was a thread about the equivalent shared network setup on their
>     mailing list:
> 
>     http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2007q1/001277.html
>     <http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2007q1/001277.html>
> 
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