Re: Who is using the ISC DHCP server in their FAI environment?

Thomas,

We are using ISC DHCP in the Electrical and Computer Engineering =
Department at the University of British Columbia.

We generate our dhcpd.conf programmatically from our in-house IP address =
management tool, and our template does things like putting devices that =
are marked as FAI-enabled into the appropriate DHCP subclass and giving =
them fixed IP addresses.  I'm aware that ISC DHCP is EOL, so there's =
programming work needed to migrate to kea.  (For our multiple-subnet =
environment, dnsmasq is not sufficiently featureful.)  I'm not looking =
forward to having to do that migration, but I suppose that it's =
unavoidable.

We also use other tools that integrate with DHCP similarly, such as =
https://fogproject.org <https://fogproject.org/> for imaging Windows =
workstations.

Dara Poon
UBC IT Services =E2=80=94 Department of Electrical and Computer =
Engineering



> On May 27, 2025, at 00:33, Thomas Lange <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I like to know who is using the DHCP server from ISC when doing a FAI
> network installation. Debian plans to remove this package for the
> upcoming release (trixie) and I'm not sure how much work it may cause
> to sysadmin to migrate to a replacement, for e.g. the new DHCPD from
> ISC called kea.
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> Did anyone already migrated to kea?
> Do you think you can easily migrate to kea or dnsmasq or other
> packages?
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> Currently FAI provides examples for the dhcpd.conf for ISC dhcp, but
> if Debian removes the isc dhcp package, I cannot provide a working
> config for the trixie release in time and FAI users have to do it on
> their own.
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> I'll try to convince the Debian release team to keep ISC dhcp for the
> trixie release, but some people want to remove it , because it's EOL
> and there will be no security support by Debian any more.
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> What's your oppinion on that?
> --=20
> best regards Thomas