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

[James Sumners]

My first requirement was reservation storage in a database. Hacks to do
that are not a substitute. But discounting that, I didn't see where it
supports sending custom options. And the config file format wasn't really
any better than ISC's, which is the big annoyance.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 02:19 Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> 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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