supported hosts database types are MySQL and PostgreSQL; the Cassandra
backend does not yet support host reservations.</para>
+ <para>For example, the following configuration can be used to
+ configure connection to MySQL:
+ <screen>
+"Dhcp6": {
+ <userinput>"hosts-database": {
+ "type": "mysql",
+ "name": "kea",
+ "user": "kea",
+ "password": "secret123",
+ "host": "localhost",
+ "port": 3306
+ }</userinput>
+}</screen> Note that depending on your database configuration, many of
+ the parameters may be optional.</para>
+
+
<para>Please note that usage of hosts storage is optional. A user can define
all host reservations in the configuration file, and that is the recommended way
if the number of reservations is small. However, when the number of