Definitely string ID is nicer to manage. The thing is, Kea seems to be designed to support a large number of subnets and DB backend. In this case it is better to use an integer because I don't think you want a string based primary key on a DB table with millions of entries.
Regarding your second question I believe you may find some answers here: https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.4.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#address-allocation-strategies-in-dhcpv4 Regards, David On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 9:21 AM <mxhajducze...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can confirm – the lack of support for string ID is pretty annoying right > now, and forces me to create ranges for specific applications, which will > not scale well in production. > > > > On the second one, I observed that it goes numerically from the bottom of > the pool range up, so ::2, ::3, etc. In ISC, it seems to have been random > selection from the pool, with attempt made to populate all stanzas. Kea > seems to prefer numerically incrementing assignment, which is pretty bad > for security purposes (if a user knows it, they can pretty much guess > previous assignments). I preferred personally the old ISC way of doing > things. > > > > Marek > > > > *From:* Kea-users <kea-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> *On Behalf Of *Xiao, > Yu (CCI-Atlanta) via Kea-users > *Sent:* Monday, May 6, 2024 6:10 AM > *To:* Kea user's list <kea-users@lists.isc.org> > *Cc:* Xiao, Yu (CCI-Atlanta) <yu.x...@cox.com> > *Subject:* [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet configuration > > > > Greetings, > > > > I have two questions related to the kea design. First, seems currently we > can only assign numeric IDs to subnets, but for subnet management, it’s > more convenient to use a string, is it possible to add this feature? > Second, how kea design to distribute the ip addresses inside of the subnet > esp ipv6 subnet? Is it totally random? Thank you. > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Yu > > > -- > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support > subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more > information. > > To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. > > Kea-users mailing list > Kea-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users >
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