Veronique Lefebure writes: > I would like to understand why KEA allocates an IP which should not be alloc > ated. > > > I have, on purpose (for testing KEA behaviour), declared the following globa > l host reservation:
=> the answer is here: you use a global host reservation with a reserved address so as it is documented this breaks localization aka subnet selection so you can get exactly the kind of results you got... > My question is: > ISC DHCP would not do that. in ISC DHCP there is no global reservations for an address even it is not obvious from the syntax: the reservation is attached to the subnet the address belongs to. > Is it expected that KEA does not behave the same way ? => yes, host reservation model is very different in KEA. > Is there any tuning that can be used so that KEA behaves the same way as ISC > DHCP used to behave ? => put reservations with an address in a subnet the address belongs to. Note you can still use global reservations for other things as KNOWN / UNKNOWN classification, option setting, etc. With last versions of KEA you have also optional early global reservation lookup too. Regards Francis Dupont <fdup...@isc.org> -- ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. Kea-users mailing list Kea-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users