Hi,

another thing turned up in my quest in evaluation the move from isc to kea dhcp.

I currently have all of the following options for identifying host reservations 
in isc dhcp:

  host-identifier option agent.circuit-id "lineid-1001";
  host-identifier option agent.remote-id "/lineid-1002/";
  host-identifier option agent.subscriber-id "lineid-1003";

We have older zyxel dslam that only have configurable remote-id.

We also have newer zyxel gear where the dhcp snooping agent can insert both 
circuit-id and remote-id

We also have cisco4506 switches that only do circuit-id.

In another setup I have a vlan per customer where the cisco l3 gateway only 
supports inserting a subscriber-id.

As you see the zyxel cpe we have also require strange quoting with / around the 
remote-id value.

Our provisining system knows which access node a cpe is connected to and will 
provision the appropriate host reservation ( via patched omapi for isc dhcp ) 
depending on the specific cas.e

We need all 3 though.

No comibinations like recently requested on the list, just alternatives.

The design paper on I found here https://kea.isc.org/wiki/HostReservationDesign 
says kea 1.1 would support all 3 circuit-id, remote-id, subscriber-id for the 
host identifier.

The postgresql db schema only has circuit-id:

        ck@kea1:/usr/local/share/kea/scripts/pgsql$ grep host_identifier_type 
dhcpdb_create.pgsql  | grep ^INSERT
        INSERT INTO host_identifier_type VALUES (0, 'hw-address');
        INSERT INTO host_identifier_type VALUES (1, 'duid');
        INSERT INTO host_identifier_type VALUES (2, 'circuit-id');
        INSERT INTO host_identifier_type VALUES (3, 'client-id');
        INSERT INTO host_identifier_type VALUES (4, 'flex-id');
        ck@kea1:/usr/local/share/kea/scripts/pgsql$

Any reason remote-id and subscriber-id were left out.  Or is this just missing 
in the db schema ?

A related issue would turn up when using flex-id.  As we neeed different 
identifiers depending on the access technology we might also need different 
flex-id instances.   Currently we would be fine with ipv4 when remote-id and 
subscriber-id are added.  Also in ipv6 we currently have all the ldra set to 
option 18 interface-id.  Still a situation might turn up in the future where we 
might need multiple variations of flex-id.

A possible design for supporting this would be to have named flex-id instances 
that you preconfigure in the config file and then reference by name.  I am 
thinking of something like the following:

        "Dhcp6": {
            "reservations": [
                {
                        "identifier-type":"interface-id",
                        "flex-id": "'foo'",
                        "ip-addresses": [ "2001:db8::1" ]
                },
                {
                        "identifier-type":"remote-id",
                        "flex-id": "'bar'",
                        "ip-addresses": [ "2001:db8::2" ]
                },
            ],
            "hooks-libraries": [
                {
                    "library": "/path/libdhcp_flex_id.so",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                                "name": "interface-id",
                                "identifier-type": "
                                "identifier-expression": 
"relay6[2].option[18].hex"
                        },
                        {
                                "name": "remote-id",
                                "identifier-expression": 
"relay6[2].option[37].hex"
                        }
                    [
                },
                ...
    ],


Greetings
Christian

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