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

[Christopher Huhn]

Hi y'all

I like to know who is using the DHCP server from ISC when doing a FAI

network installation.

We do too.

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?





Best regards

Christopher

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Christopher Huhn
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Our IPAM generates dhcpd.conf's for our central DHCP servers containing the required DHCP flags for network boot (PXE/FAI install/other diskless network boot). These run Debian. We also have dedicated Ubuntu DHCP servers for network PXE booting (and FAI installing) machines over Infiniband. Unfortunately the required dhcpd Infiniband patches never made it to Debian, therefore Ubuntu. Last time I looked there was no Infiniband support in KEA, so it seems like we are stuck with dhcpd for a little while.

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