On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:07:01 +0000
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make
the move at some point.
Frustrating.
I was able to run keama to convert from isc-dhcp to kea. But I haven't
found any general advice on "if you hit this problem, do this". I doubt
very much I am hitting novel problems. In one sense, there is too much
documentation: the nugget I need is buried in a lot of other
information.
I decided to shelve that for the nonce, and just install kea and see
what was generated or installed by way of configuration. I am slowly
proceeding with that. I make one change at a time, then "systemctrl
reload-or-restart kea-dhcp4-server.service" to test, with journalctl
running in another terminal. So it will be slow going.
One possible gotcha: I have dnsmasq installed as part of libvirt. It
binds to the physical port, which is unnecessary for its mission (the
virtual network). I had to hunt that down and shut it off before the kea
server would start. libvirt bug?