So many Issues with Kea DHCP
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Hi Everyone,
After reading some posts in here and from my own experiences trying to use Kea DHCP this is not production ready at all. I tried using it with a fresh install of pfSense and while streaming and gaming it just shutdown and stopped providing traffic to my VLAN's. After reviewing the logs it kept restarting constantly which stopped all traffic. I switched back to ISC DHCP (Deprecated). Which was stable and have had no issues since.If developers are reading these posts please do not stop ISC DHCP (Deprecated) until Kea DHCP is just as stable. At the moment it seems a long way off.
Thanks
Rockyuk
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First : something to read : Netgate Adds Kea DHCP to pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09
@Rockyuk said in So many Issues with Kea DHCP:
If developers are reading these posts please do not stopped ISC DHCP (Deprecated) until Kea DHCP is just as stable
Time will tell, but I guess "ISC DHCP" will be available in pfSense for many years to come.
"ISC KEA" is a complete rebuild of "ISC DHCP" by the same authors.
It's already pretty stable, but what is missing is the pfSense GUI to these hundreds of parameters (options). 'Special' options are still missing. See the Blog post. -
@Rockyuk said in So many Issues with Kea DHCP:
After reading some posts in here and from my own experiences trying to use Kea DHCP this is not production ready at all. I tried using it with a fresh install of pfSense and while streaming and gaming it just shutdown and stopped providing traffic to my VLAN's. After reviewing the logs it kept restarting constantly which stopped all traffic. I switched back to ISC DHCP (Deprecated). Which was stable and have had no issues since.
If developers are reading these posts please do not stop ISC DHCP (Deprecated) until Kea DHCP is just as stable. At the moment it seems a long way off.
Kea DHCP is having some issues right now. It's best to use ISC DHCP, which works well until Kea gets better and is as stable as ISC.
