I am wondering whether it is not more efficient to perform a
"config-write" followed by a "config-reload"
rather than a "config-set" ?

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From: Kea-users <[email protected]> on behalf of Veronique 
Lefebure <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:19 AM
To: Dan Oachs <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Kea-users] How to best update the KEA configuration on a HA 
hot-standby KEA setup

Hi,

We don't use any database for storing the KEA configuration: we use plain json 
configuration files.
We need to update the configuration very regularly because we allow only known 
clients (pre-registered mac addresses), hence the list of host-reservations is 
quite volatile.

Véronique
________________________________
From: Dan Oachs <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:31 PM
To: Veronique Lefebure <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Kea-users] How to best update the KEA configuration on a HA 
hot-standby KEA setup

I am curious why you are updating the config every 5 minutes.   We used to do 
that with our old DHCP server, but with Kea we moved to storing reservations in 
a database.  That way we rarely need to make changes to the actual Kea 
configuration that would necessitate a reload of the config.

--Dan


On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:27 AM Veronique Lefebure 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,

When running KEA on one single server, (no HA), and updating the KEA dhcp 
configuration file every 5 minute, using "config-set"
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/ctrl-channel.html?highlight=config-set#the-config-set-command
 ,
we can see that KEA does not reply to the DHCP requests during 30-35 seconds 
while "config-set" is running.

Is it expected ?
If yes, if we add a second server in a HA hot-standby mode, can we expect it to 
answer to the DHCP requests while the first server is busy with config-set ?
If yes, we need to update the second server asynchronously with respect to the 
first one, else they would both be busy with "config-set" at the same time.

I would be interested to know how people are updating the KEA DHCP 
configuration in a HA hot-standby setup.

Thanks,
Veronique

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