I did look at it but it is a highly ineffective way of doing such 
classification. I do not have much commonality between individual subnets and 
adding extra complexity of tracking them via client classes is not worth the 
effort IMHO. I will see what I can do with comments, and just wish they were 
visible in Stork, via – perhaps, a customizable field. Right now, having 
several [1] prefixes is hard to track 

 

Marek

 

From: David Farje <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 12:12 PM
To: Kea user's list <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; Xiao, Yu (CCI-Atlanta) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Kea-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Two questions regarding to kea subnet 
configuration

 

You can use client classes.  You can create a client class with only the "name" 
parameter and associate the subnet with the client class.  That way the subnet 
object has a descriptive string you can use to reference. See the following

 

https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.2.0/arm/classify.html#configuring-subnets-with-class-information

 

Best Regards,

David

 

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM Xiao, Yu (CCI-Atlanta) via Kea-users 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

I agree, So if we have string name for those subnets, we can use our tools to 
manipulate those information much easier and people who use them will 
understand easier. It’s better we have another  non-key ID as Marek suggested. 

 

 

 

Best Regards,

Yu

 

 

From: Kea-users <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of Marek Hajduczenia 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Date: Monday, May 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet 
configuration

I understand the scaling factor and just throwing it out there – it would help 
to have perhaps non-key ID to search for, say “name” or something in the line 
of, making it a more unique value to search for. 

 

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Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 10:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet configuration

 

Definitely string ID is nicer to manage.  The thing is, Kea seems to be 
designed to support a large number of subnets and DB backend.  In this case it 
is better to use an integer because I don't think you want a string based 
primary key on a DB table with millions of entries.

 

Regarding your second question I believe you may find some answers here:

https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.4.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#address-allocation-strategies-in-dhcpv4
 
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.4.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html*address-allocation-strategies-in-dhcpv4__;Iw!!Hit2Ag!xde9ThTb7f7wzSlNi38OV3QQiTWY7eArrNaoR1tsT44zCY3x94jQ3Seg_P5d18-jL0k5A0YY61YHuIsTwbvG$>
 

 

Regards,

David

 

 

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 9:21 AM <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

I can confirm – the lack of support for string ID is pretty annoying right now, 
and forces me to create ranges for specific applications, which will not scale 
well in production. 

 

On the second one, I observed that it goes numerically from the bottom of the 
pool range up, so ::2, ::3, etc. In ISC, it seems to have been random selection 
from the pool, with attempt made to populate all stanzas. Kea seems to prefer 
numerically incrementing assignment, which is pretty bad for security purposes 
(if a user knows it, they can pretty much guess previous assignments). I 
preferred personally the old ISC way of doing things. 

 

Marek

 

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Subject: [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet configuration

 

Greetings,

 

I have two questions related to the kea design. First, seems currently we can 
only assign numeric IDs to subnets, but for subnet management, it’s more 
convenient to use a string, is it possible to add this feature? Second, how kea 
design to distribute the ip addresses inside of the subnet esp ipv6 subnet? Is 
it totally random? Thank you. 

 

 

 

 

Best Regards,

Yu

 

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