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-Kea provides DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers, a dynamic DNS update module,
-a portable DHCP library, libdhcp++, a control agent that provides a management
-REST interface, a NETCONF agent that provides a YANG/NETCONF interface for Kea,
-and a DHCP benchmarking tool, perfdhcp.
 
 Kea is developed by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
 
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 If you are thinking about contributing a patch, please read the
 Contributor's Guide first.
 
-The Kea mailing lists are available via https://lists.isc.org/.