Re: [Kea-users] Best practice recommendation for reserving/blocking out VIPs?

2018-06-18 Thread Klaus Steden
Hi Francis, Thanks for the feedback. Your first point seems like the best practice implementation, although in practice just using a dummy MAC for a blocked-out address will work well enough. We manage reservations through an external application talking to MySQL directly, and so don't store

Re: [Kea-users] Best practice recommendation for reserving/blocking out VIPs?

2018-06-15 Thread Francis Dupont
I don't fully understand your problem but: - the simplest is to not have addresses you want reserve in a pool - using host reservations work too but with a performance penalty (cf out-of-pool text in the doc) and with a hairy but handle case if you change dynamically the config (cf conflict

[Kea-users] Best practice recommendation for reserving/blocking out VIPs?

2018-06-13 Thread Klaus Steden
Hi everyone, We had a new (for us) problem come up, and I wanted to poll the community informally to see how everyone else has approached the issue. We have a Windows cluster that uses L3 HA and passes a VIP back and forth between two or more physical hosts. To ensure that a Linux machine