On 17.12.2018 22:59, Templin (US), Fred L wrote: > Hi Tomek, > > Thanks for the response. It sounds like there are no technical issues that > would > prevent the implementation of Reconfigure in kea - rather, it is a > prioritization > and resource question which is always the case for any large software > distribution. > Do I have that right? Correct. There are no technical objections. On the contrary - this is a feature we'd very much love to get. Unfortunately, our resources are limited, so we are try to focus on features that are requested most frequently.
And reconfigure is rarely requested, which is a shame. It's a good mechanism. IMHO the fundamental mistake was made years ago when support for this feature was made optional while defining RFC3315. Since clients can chose to not implement (and most implementors go that way), network administrators can't rely on the feature. This in turn made server implementors to not implement it, because few people ask for it. There are some deployment environments, such as cable networks, where docsis 3.0 mandates reconfigure implementation. I proposed to make it mandatory when DHC was working on RFC3315bis, but sadly my proposal was rejected. > I do not have a pressing need for the functionality at the moment, but that > may > change as we get further down the road in 2019. For now, I just wanted to > verify that there are no technical issues that are preventing the > implementation > and I think I have my answer. Again, this is correct. We'd love to get this feature. There are some undecided aspects, such as how to define management interface for it, but overall the feature is sound and we want it. Speaking of the interface, there are many ways how a reconfigure could be implemented. The easiest will be to send reconfigure to a single client, triggered by a command, say, client-reconfig. We'll surely get some form of reconfigure all clients and it looks like something in between those two. Perhaps a mechanism to say "all clients in subnet X" or maybe "clients having an address from pool Y" are to be reconfigured. Anyway, that's something to think about. Thanks for asking about this feature. I really hope we'll get it implemented soon. Tomek _______________________________________________ Kea-users mailing list Kea-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users