After working on another Projects with Kea, i do agree with franco.
Most features that are mandatory are paid features, a lot is not supported and the raw and the udp socket is pure crap on linux.
The one doesnt work with vlans the other works with vlans but has issues with dhcp forwarders from the switch.
We got it working with rewriting dhcp packetheaders on our Core-Switches.
However its a shitmess with Kea, isc-dhcp worked absolutely perfect in every constellation, dhcp registration worked flawlessly and it was super easy to add dhcp options.
On Kea even dhcp registration in combination with powerdns is a mess, it works 99% but sometimes clients doesnt get registred or removed.
However we had no choice.
The ONLY nice feature of Kea is actually HA, nothing else.
Kea writes a lot of "Performance" on their Pages, but the real Performance of Kea is the worst ive seen. Even isc-dhcp is delivering clients an ip-address faster.
And dnsmasq is compared to Kea, lightspeed.
The Development of Kea is utterly slow either, nothing changes, no new features, its even impossible so search for leases with wildcards etc in stork.
Basically you have to know the exact ip or mac-address to search though leases. You cant even list all leases.
So its completely senseless.
The paid plugins are horribly expensive either and without them kea is almost useless tbh.
However, the only nice feature is HA, otherwise Kea is basically crap in my opinion that we are forced to use for the moment.
Cheers
Most features that are mandatory are paid features, a lot is not supported and the raw and the udp socket is pure crap on linux.
The one doesnt work with vlans the other works with vlans but has issues with dhcp forwarders from the switch.
We got it working with rewriting dhcp packetheaders on our Core-Switches.
However its a shitmess with Kea, isc-dhcp worked absolutely perfect in every constellation, dhcp registration worked flawlessly and it was super easy to add dhcp options.
On Kea even dhcp registration in combination with powerdns is a mess, it works 99% but sometimes clients doesnt get registred or removed.
However we had no choice.
The ONLY nice feature of Kea is actually HA, nothing else.
Kea writes a lot of "Performance" on their Pages, but the real Performance of Kea is the worst ive seen. Even isc-dhcp is delivering clients an ip-address faster.
And dnsmasq is compared to Kea, lightspeed.
The Development of Kea is utterly slow either, nothing changes, no new features, its even impossible so search for leases with wildcards etc in stork.
Basically you have to know the exact ip or mac-address to search though leases. You cant even list all leases.
So its completely senseless.
The paid plugins are horribly expensive either and without them kea is almost useless tbh.
However, the only nice feature is HA, otherwise Kea is basically crap in my opinion that we are forced to use for the moment.
Cheers