or configuration parameters currently used by the server.
</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>High Availability</entry>
+ <entry>Support customers</entry>
+ <entry>Kea 1.4.0</entry>
+ <entry>Minimizing a risk of DHCP service unavailability is achieved
+ by setting up multiple instances of the DHCP servers in a network.
+ Each server can serve selected group of clients in this network
+ (load balancing) or all clients, if it detects that its partner has
+ crashed or cannot be providing DHCP service for any other reason.
+ It is also possible to designate one server to serve all DHCP clients,
+ and leave another server as "standby". This server will activate its
+ DHCP function when it detects that its partner is not available.
+ Such cooperation between the DHCP servers requires that these
+ servers constantly communicate with each other to send updates about
+ allocated leases and to periodically test whether their partners are still
+ operational. The "libdhcp_ha" library provides such functionality for
+ Kea DHCP.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</para>
</section>
- </section>
- </section> <!-- end of subnet commands -->
+ </section> <!-- end of subnet commands -->
+
+ <section id="high-availability-library">
+ <title>libdhcp_ha: High Availability</title>
+ <para>
+ This section will describe the <command>libdhcp_ha</command> hook library
+ being developed for the Kea 1.4.0 release.
+ </para>
+ </section> <!-- end of high-availability-library -->
+
+ </section>
+
+
<section id="user-context">
<title>User contexts</title>