%general-entities; ]> Kea DHCP Server The ISC Kea package contains the server programs for DHCP. It is the successor of the old ISC DHCP server which is end-of-life since December 2022. &lfs120_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &kea-md5sum; Download size: &kea-size; Estimated disk space required: &kea-buildsize; Estimated build time: &kea-time; Kea Dependencies Required and Optional , ; for documentation: , , and ; for tests: GoogleTest Optional database backends or MySQL, and You must have Packet Socket support. IPv6 support is optional. Kea First fix detection of Python-3.12 by the build system: sed -e 's/:3/:4/' \ -i configure Remove one installation step that uses an obsolete python module: sed -e '/dlist="/d' \ -i src/bin/shell/Makefile.in Install ISC Kea DHCP Server by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --enable-shell \ --with-openssl \ --disable-static \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/kea-&kea-dhcp-version; && make To test the results, you must have installed GoogleTest and kept its source. You should also have passed --with-gtest-source=/path/to/googletest/sourcedir to configure above. Run the tests with make check. Three tests in the TLSTest suite are known to fail. To install the ISC Kea DHCP Server suite, issue the following commands as the root user: make -j1 install --enable-shell: Allows building kea-shell, a command line interface for the control agent. --with-openssl: Allows using OpenSSL for communicating with the control-agent and for DNS updates. --with-pgsql or --with-mysql: ISC Kea can store the leases on a database. This might be useful in large environments running a cluster of DHCP servers. Using the memfile backend (which is a CSV file stored locally) is possible anyhow. --enable-generate-docs: If documentation is to be rebuilt, add that option. Several dependencies must be installed for generating the documentation. make -j1 install: ISC does not recommend any form of parallel or job server options when doing the install. The support of IPv4, IPv6 and DDNS has been split into separate servers which runs independently from each other. Each of them has its own configuration file. Additional configuration files come from the keactrl agent which is used to control the servers in an easy way. Consult the Kea Administrator Reference Manual for detailed information about the configuration of ISC Kea as it is a quite capable system. The configuration shown below is a bare minimum to get a DHCP server running but it already includes configuration for DDNS (Dynamic DNS). That setup might be working for small networks with a few clients and low traffic. For greater installations with thousands of clients, ISC Kea can be configured to use databases (mariadb or postgresql) to store the leases and build a cluster with multiple nodes. It can be integrated to ISC Stork which is a management dashboard to ISC Kea. If you want to start the DHCP Server at boot, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/kea-dhcpd init script kea-dhcpd.service unit included in the package: make install-kea-dhcpd /etc/kea/keactrl.conf, /etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf, /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf, /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf, and /etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf /etc/kea/keactrl.conf /etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf /etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf keactrl is used to control the independent servers (IPv4, IPv6, DDNS). Its configuration file /etc/kea/keactrl.conf is installed by default and includes many path settings which are defined due to the configure at build time. It also includes settings to specify which of the servers should be started. Control Agent The Control Agent is a daemon which allows the (re)configuration of the Kea DHCP service via REST API. Set ctrl_agent=yes to start the control agent (service providing a REST API), set ctrl_agent=no in case the control agent is not needed. IPv4 DHCP server This daemon handles requests for IPv4 addresses. Set dhcp4=yes to start it, set dhcp4=no in case DHCP service for IPv4 is not wanted. IPv6 DHCP server This daemon handles requests for IPv6 addresses. Set dhcp6=yes to start it, set dhcp6=no in case DHCP service for IPv6 is not wanted. Dynamic DNS This daemon is used to update a DNS server dynamically when Kea assigns an IP address to a device. Set dhcp_ddns=yes to enable it, set dhcp_ddns=no in case dynamic DNS updates are not wanted. The Netconf service is not installed because required dependencies are not covered by the current BLFS book. . With the following command, Kea will be configured to start the dhcp service for IPv4 and the dynamic DNS update, while the control agent and the dhcp service for IPv6 remain down. Tweak the command to match your needs on started services and execute as the &root; user: sed -e "s/^dhcp4=.*/dhcp4=yes/" \ -e "s/^dhcp6=.*/dhcp6=no/" \ -e "s/^dhcp_ddns=.*/dhcp_ddns=yes/" \ -e "s/^ctrl_agent=.*/ctrl_agent=no/" \ -i /etc/kea/keactrl.conf Four service units are used to start various daemons provided by Kea: Control Agent The Control Agent is a daemon which allows the (re)configuration of the Kea DHCP service via REST API. Run systemctl enable kea-ctrl-agent if this daemon is needed. IPv4 DHCP server This daemon handles requests for IPv4 addresses. Run systemctl enable kea-dhcp4-server to have it started by systemd. IPv6 DHCP server This daemon handles requests for IPv6 addresses. Run systemctl enable kea-dhcp6-server to have it started by systemd. Dynamic DNS This daemon is used to update a DNS server dynamically when Kea assigns an IP address to a device. Run systemctl enable kea-ddns-server to have it started by systemd. The Netconf service is not installed because required dependencies are not covered by the current BLFS book. The provided configuration could be used without changes but in BLFS, objects like sockets are stored in /run rather than in /tmp. cat > /etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf << "EOF" // Begin /etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf { // This is a basic configuration for the Kea Control Agent. // RESTful interface to be available at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ "Control-agent": { "http-host": "127.0.0.1", "http-port": 8000, "control-sockets": { "dhcp4": { "socket-type": "unix", "socket-name": "/run/kea4-ctrl-socket" }, "dhcp6": { "socket-type": "unix", "socket-name": "/run/kea6-ctrl-socket" }, "d2": { "socket-type": "unix", "socket-name": "/run/kea-ddns-ctrl-socket" } }, "loggers": [ { "name": "kea-ctrl-agent", "output_options": [ { "output": "/var/log/kea-ctrl-agent.log" "pattern": "%D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%q} %-5p %m\n" } ], "severity": "INFO", "debuglevel": 0 } ] } } // End /etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf EOF A sample configuration file is created in /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf. Adjust the file to suit your needs or overwrite it by running the following command as the &root; user (you'll need to edit this file anyway: at least the interfaces field, the ddns-qualifying-suffix field, and almost all the fields in Subnet4: cat > /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf << "EOF" // Begin /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf { "Dhcp4": { // Add names of your network interfaces to listen on. "interfaces-config": { "interfaces": [ "eth0", "eth2" ] }, "control-socket": { "socket-type": "unix", "socket-name": "/run/kea4-ctrl-socket" }, "lease-database": { "type": "memfile", "lfc-interval": 3600 }, "expired-leases-processing": { "reclaim-timer-wait-time": 10, "flush-reclaimed-timer-wait-time": 25, "hold-reclaimed-time": 3600, "max-reclaim-leases": 100, "max-reclaim-time": 250, "unwarned-reclaim-cycles": 5 }, "renew-timer": 900, "rebind-timer": 1800, "valid-lifetime": 3600, // Enable DDNS - Kea will dynamically update the DNS "ddns-send-updates" : true, "ddns-qualifying-suffix": "your.domain.tld", "dhcp-ddns" : { "enable-updates": true }, "subnet4": [ { "subnet": "192.168.56.0/24", "pools": [ { "pool": "192.168.56.16 - 192.168.56.254" } ], "option-data": [ { "name": "domain-name", "data": "your.domain.tld" }, { "name": "domain-name-servers", "data": "192.168.56.2, 192.168.3.7" }, { "name": "domain-search", "data": "your.domain.tld" }, { "name": "routers", "data": "192.168.56.2" } ] } ], "loggers": [ { "name": "kea-dhcp4", "output_options": [ { "output": "/var/log/kea-dhcp4.log", "pattern": "%D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%q} %-5p %m\n" } ], "severity": "INFO", "debuglevel": 0 } ] } } // End /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf EOF The configuration for IPv6 is similar to the configuration of IPv4. The configuration file is /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf. If there is a server running, ISC Kea can update the DNS when it gives an IP address to a client. A sample configuration file is created in /etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf. Adjust the file to suit your needs or overwrite it by running the following command as the &root; user: cat > /etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf << "EOF" // Begin /etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf { "DhcpDdns": { "ip-address": "127.0.0.1", "port": 53001, "control-socket": { "socket-type": "unix", "socket-name": "/run/kea-ddns-ctrl-socket" }, "tsig-keys": [ { "name" : "rndc-key", "algorithm" : "hmac-sha256", "secret" : "1FU5hD7faYaajQCjSdA54JkTPQxbbPrRnzOKqHcD9cM=" } ], "forward-ddns" : { "ddns-domains" : [ { "name" : "your.domain.tld.", "key-name": "rndc-key", "dns-servers" : [ { "ip-address" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 53 } ] } ] }, "reverse-ddns" : { "ddns-domains" : [ { "name" : "56.168.192.in-addr.arpa.", "key-name": "rndc-key", "dns-servers" : [ { "ip-address" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 53 } ] } ] }, "loggers": [ { "name": "kea-dhcp-ddns", "output_options": [ { "output": "/var/log/kea-ddns.log", "pattern": "%D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%q} %-5p %m\n" } ], "severity": "INFO", "debuglevel": 0 } ] } } // End /etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf EOF The value of secret is just an example. Generate the key for your installation by using the rndc-confgen -a command or the tsig-keygen command which both are provided by . In this example configuration, it is assumed that the DNS server runs on the same machine as Kea does (accessible via 127.0.0.1) and that this machine has the IP 192.168.56.2. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories keactrl, kea-admin, kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp4, kea-dhcp6, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-lfc, kea-shell libkea-asiodns.so, libkea-asiolink.so, libkea-cc.so, libkea-cgfclient.so, libkea-cryptolink.so, libkea-d2srv.so, libkea-database.so, libkea-dhcp_ddns.so, libkea-dhcp++.so, libkea-dhcpsrv.so, libkea-dns++.so, libkea-eval.so, libkea-exceptions.so, libkea-hooks.so, libkea-http.so, libkea-log.so, libkea-process.so, libkea-stats.so, libkea-tcp.so, libkea-util.so, and libkea-util-io.so /etc/kea, /usr/include/kea, /usr/lib/kea, /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/site-packages/kea, /usr/share/kea, /usr/share/doc/kea-&kea-version;, and /var/lib/kea Short Descriptions keactrl Tool to control (start/stop) the server processes. keactrl kea-admin kea-admin is a shell script which offers database maintenance. kea-admin kea-ctrl-agent Daemon which exposes a RESTful control interface for managing Kea servers. kea-ctrl-agent kea-dhcp4 The server daemon providing IPv4 addresses. kea-dhcp4 kea-dhcp6 The server daemon providing IPv6 addresses. kea-dhcp6 kea-dhcp-ddns The server daemon performing the dynamic DNS updates. kea-dhcp-ddns kea-lfc The kea-lfc service process removes redundant information from the files used to provide persistent storage for the memfile database backend. It is run by the Kea DHCP server. kea-lfc keashell RESTful client to the ISC Kea services. keashell