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+# This is an example configuration file for the DHCPv4 server in Kea.
+# It contains configuration of the MySQL host database backend, used
+# to retrieve reserved addresses, host names, DHCPv4 message fields
+# and DHCP options from MySQL database.
+{ "Dhcp4":
+
+{
+# Kea is told to listen on ethX interface only.
+ "interfaces-config": {
+ "interfaces": [ "ethX" ]
+ },
+
+# We need to specify lease type. As of May 2014, three backends are supported:
+# memfile, mysql and pgsql. We'll just use memfile, because it doesn't require
+# any prior set up.
+ "lease-database": {
+ "type": "memfile"
+ },
+
+# Addresses will be assigned with valid lifetimes being 4000. Client
+# is told to start renewing after 1000 seconds. If the server does not respond
+# after 2000 seconds since the lease was granted, client is supposed
+# to start REBIND procedure (emergency renewal that allows switching
+# to a different server).
+ "valid-lifetime": 4000,
+
+# Renew and rebind timers are commented out. This implies that options
+# 58 and 59 will not be sent to the client. In this case it is up to
+# the client to pick the timer values according to RFC2131. Uncomment the
+# timers to send these options to the client.
+# "renew-timer": 1000,
+# "rebind-timer": 2000,
+
+
+# Kea supports reservations by several different types of identifiers:
+# hw-address (hardware/MAC address of the client), duid (DUID inserted by the
+# client), client-id (client identifier inserted by the client) and circuit-id
+# (circuit identifier inserted by the relay agent). When told to do so, Kea can
+# check for all of those identifier types, but it takes a costly database lookup
+# to do so. It is therefore useful from a performance perspective to use only
+# the reservation types that are actually used in a given network.
+
+# The example below is not optimal from a performance perspective, but it
+# nicely showcases the host reservation capabilities. Please use the minimum
+# set of identifier types used in your network.
+ "host-reservation-identifiers": [ "circuit-id", "hw-address", "duid", "client-id" ],
+
+# Specify connection to the database holding host reservations. The type
+# specifies that the MySQL database is used. user and password are the
+# credentials used to connect to the database. host and name specify
+# location of the host where the database instance is running, and the
+# name of the database to use. The server processing a packet will first
+# check if there are any reservations specified for this client in the
+# reservations list, within the subnet (configuration file). If there are
+# no reservations there, the server will try to retrieve reservations
+# from this database.
+ "hosts-database": {
+ "type": "mysql",
+ "name": "kea",
+ "user": "kea",
+ "password": "kea",
+ "host": "localhost"
+ },
+
+# Define a subnet with a single pool of dynamic addresses. Addresses from
+# this pool will be assigned to clients which don't have reservations in the
+# database. Subnet identifier is equal to 1. If this subnet is selected for
+# the client, this subnet id will be used to search for the reservations
+# within the database.
+ "subnet4": [
+ {
+ "pools": [ { "pool": "192.0.2.10 - 192.0.2.200" } ],
+ "subnet": "192.0.2.0/24",
+ "interface": "ethX",
+ "id": 1
+ }
+ ]
+},
+
+# The following configures logging. It assumes that messages with at least
+# informational level (info, warn, error) will will be logged to stdout.
+"Logging": {
+ "loggers": [
+ {
+ "name": "kea-dhcp4",
+ "output_options": [
+ {
+ "output": "stdout"
+ }
+ ],
+ "severity": "INFO"
+ }
+ ]
+}
+
+}