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?
--
Merlin Hansen
Department of Computing Science
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth Street
Nanaimo BC V9R 5S5
250-753-3245 x 2321
t...@csci.viu.ca
