I agree, So if we have string name for those subnets, we can use our tools to 
manipulate those information much easier and people who use them will 
understand easier. It’s better we have another  non-key ID as Marek suggested.



Best Regards,
Yu


From: Kea-users <kea-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> on behalf of Marek 
Hajduczenia <mxhajducze...@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, May 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet 
configuration
I understand the scaling factor and just throwing it out there – it would help 
to have perhaps non-key ID to search for, say “name” or something in the line 
of, making it a more unique value to search for.

From: Kea-users <kea-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> On Behalf Of David Farje
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 10:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet configuration

Definitely string ID is nicer to manage.  The thing is, Kea seems to be 
designed to support a large number of subnets and DB backend.  In this case it 
is better to use an integer because I don't think you want a string based 
primary key on a DB table with millions of entries.

Regarding your second question I believe you may find some answers here:
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.4.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#address-allocation-strategies-in-dhcpv4<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.4.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html*address-allocation-strategies-in-dhcpv4__;Iw!!Hit2Ag!xde9ThTb7f7wzSlNi38OV3QQiTWY7eArrNaoR1tsT44zCY3x94jQ3Seg_P5d18-jL0k5A0YY61YHuIsTwbvG$>

Regards,
David


On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 9:21 AM 
<mxhajducze...@gmail.com<mailto:mxhajducze...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I can confirm – the lack of support for string ID is pretty annoying right now, 
and forces me to create ranges for specific applications, which will not scale 
well in production.

On the second one, I observed that it goes numerically from the bottom of the 
pool range up, so ::2, ::3, etc. In ISC, it seems to have been random selection 
from the pool, with attempt made to populate all stanzas. Kea seems to prefer 
numerically incrementing assignment, which is pretty bad for security purposes 
(if a user knows it, they can pretty much guess previous assignments). I 
preferred personally the old ISC way of doing things.

Marek

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Subject: [Kea-users] Two questions regarding to kea subnet configuration

Greetings,

I have two questions related to the kea design. First, seems currently we can 
only assign numeric IDs to subnets, but for subnet management, it’s more 
convenient to use a string, is it possible to add this feature? Second, how kea 
design to distribute the ip addresses inside of the subnet esp ipv6 subnet? Is 
it totally random? Thank you.




Best Regards,
Yu

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