Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM Josh Moyer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello NetBSD friends,
> Disclaimer: I used my news client to search for prior discussion with dhcpd in the subject and was surprised to see that this hasn't seemingly come up.  I may have used my news client improperly, so apologies if this has already been discussed.  Would appreciate a referral to the group list and subject line.
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> ISC's dhcp suite is sadly now out of support (and had apparently long been deprecated) from ISC*, but we're still shipping it.  Has there been discussion about what to do about this?  ISC's replacement Kia project at least has a tool to convert your dhcpd.conf to something usable in Kia - important for those of us with more complex dhcpd configurations.  However, this doesn't solve the client side portion.  Also, as an aside, it seems that OpenBSD is still using a fork from ISC's tree.  FreeBSD seems to be in the same boat as us.  Not sure what the Linux distributions are doing...
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> * I found this out when my 9.3 -> 10.1 router upgrade started spamming the console with messages about unsupported options requests from clients and researching at ISC's site.

I did not realize that the ISC dhcpd was out of support. Thanks for
that. Didn't think to look, it just keeps on working.

I think you're talking about kea - I see it in ports and I'll look
into it going forward.

NetBSD has used dhcpcd as the dhcp client for a while. The developer,
Roy Marples, has been somewhat active on the NetBSD lists in the past.
He has graciously answered questions for me as well. It works well.

Andy