kea-ctrl-agent and dual stack listening
The kea-ctrl-agent
can presently only listen on one address, be that an IPv4 or IPv6 address. If you have a dual stack on the equipment where you want to listen, then you have to choose either the IPv4 or the IPv6 address to configure in the kea-ctrl-agent.json
.
I propose to add a new parameter to the kea-ctrl-agent configuration "http-hosts" as shown:
{
"Control-agent": {
"http-hosts": [
"2001:db8::2",
"10.1.2.2"
],
"http-port": 8000,
"control-sockets": {
"dhcp4": {
"socket-type": "unix",
"socket-name": "/tmp/socket4"
}
}
}
}
This would allow listening on multiple IP addresses especially in a dual stack environment. Also, the new parameter would preserve backward compatibility.
FYI: I did solve this problem by running two copies of the kea-ctrl-agent
. However, I'm not convinced that is a good solution. Configurations and other details included below for illustration.
kea-dhcp4.json
{
"Dhcp4": {
"control-socket": {
"socket-type": "unix",
"socket-name": "/tmp/socket4"
},
"interfaces-config": {
"interfaces": [
"ens256"
]
},
"lease-database": {
"type": "memfile",
"persist": false
},
"subnet4": [
{
"subnet": "10.1.2.0/24",
"id": 1,
"option-data": [
{
"name": "routers",
"data": "10.1.2.1"
}
],
"pools": [
{
"pool": "10.1.2.100 - 10.1.2.254"
}
]
}
],
"loggers": [
{
"name": "kea-dhcp4",
"severity": "INFO",
"output_options": [
{
"output": "stdout"
}
]
}
]
}
}
kea-ctrl-agent-v4.json
{
"Control-agent": {
"http-host": "10.1.2.2",
"http-port": 8000,
"control-sockets": {
"dhcp4": {
"socket-type": "unix",
"socket-name": "/tmp/socket4"
}
}
}
}
kea-ctrl-agent-v6.json
{
"Control-agent": {
"http-host": "2001:db8::2",
"http-port": 8000,
"control-sockets": {
"dhcp4": {
"socket-type": "unix",
"socket-name": "/tmp/socket4"
}
}
}
}
Configuration of ens256
3: ens256: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:c0:5f:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp26s0
inet 10.1.2.2/24 brd 10.1.2.255 scope global ens256
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 2001:db8::2/64 scope global
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fec0:5f47/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Daemon command lines
kea-dhcp4 -c kea-dhcp4.json
kea-ctrl-agent -c kea-ctrl-agent-v4.json
kea-ctrl-agent -c kea-ctrl-agent-v6.json
Send config-get with curl to both
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "command": "config-get", "service": [ "dhcp4" ] }' http://10.1.2.2:8000/ | jq
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "command": "config-get", "service": [ "dhcp4" ] }' http://[2001:db8::2]:8000/
Both returned a result successfully.