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    Service Watchdog and Kea DHCP Server (kea-dhcp4)

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    • QinnQ
      Qinn
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      If you use Service Watchdog and switch over to KEA DHCP, add the service kea-hcp4 to the services watched!!

      Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
      Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
      Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        You shouldn't really need to use that for anything except debugging. Are you seeing Kea stop running?

        Steve

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        • QinnQ
          Qinn @stephenw10
          last edited by Qinn

          @stephenw10

          @stephenw10 said in Service Watchdog and Kea DHCP Server (kea-dhcp4):

          You shouldn't really need to use that for anything except debugging. Are you seeing Kea stop running?

          Steve

          Don't understand what you mean to say Steve. What I meant is, that when you use service watchdog to bring op services that are somehow gone down and you have added DHCP server to watch and switch over to the new advised KEA DHCP as ISP DHCP is EOL, then you need to add the kea-dhcpv4 service

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          Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
          Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
          Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            I understand. I'm just pointing out that, in general, you should not need to use the the service watchdog except when debugging some issue. So I was wondering if you had enabled it because Kea (or ISC dhcpd) was stopping unexpectedly.

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            • QinnQ
              Qinn @stephenw10
              last edited by Qinn

              @stephenw10 said in Service Watchdog and Kea DHCP Server (kea-dhcp4):

              I understand. I'm just pointing out that, in general, you should not need to use the the service watchdog except when debugging some issue. So I was wondering if you had enabled it because Kea (or ISC dhcpd) was stopping unexpectedly.

              @stephenw10 No, I enabled Service Watchdog, because very occasionally (I am a beta tester for pfBlockerNG develop) a service stops and as a courtesy to users, it will bring it up again and send me mail, so I can check out the cause.

              Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
              Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
              Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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