Kea DHCP Server UI feedback

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I'm new to OPNsense, I've just installed it on my own home network and have got it set up to the standard I want it at, more or less. I'm using it as a DHCP server as well and have set up Kea. It works well, but I think the UI in the Kea DHCP server needs a little work.

Little stupid story: My network has multiple VLANs. I have a L3 switch which handles routing for the internal network and the OPNsense server is the default gateway between my network and the internet. It's also the DHCP server. I put in a IP helper for the DHCP server in each VLAN on the switch, pointed it at OPNsense then I set up Kea, put in DHCP scopes for a couple of the VLANs and tested that it all worked. It did. I then added the rest of the rest of the required scopes and tested those. They didn't work.

I then spent a frustrating couple of hours going over the configuration of my network, making sure I hadn't made a mistake with the DHCP config, checking the VLANs on my Proxmox host, all sorts of things. In the end, I opened the kea-dhcp4.conf file and noticed that the scopes hadn't been written to the file.

Yeah, I'd not pressed the Apply button after I added the additional scopes and once I did that it all sprung into life. Totally my fault BUT in my defense, there's nothing in the UI for Kea in OPNsense which says "Hey, you've made changes, you might want to press this big old 'Apply' button just here".

Other than that, I like OPNsense a lot and please keep up the good work!