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.. _intro:
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Introduction
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Kea is the next generation of DHCP software, developed by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It
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supports both the DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 protocols along with their extensions,
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e.g. prefix delegation and dynamic updates to DNS.
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This guide covers Kea version |release|.
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For information about supported platforms see :ref:`platforms`.
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.. include:: platforms.rst
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.. _kea_software:
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Kea Software
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Kea is a modular DHCP server solution. This modularity is accomplished using multiple
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cooperating processes which, together, provide the server functionality.
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The following software is included with Kea:
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- :iscman:`keactrl` — This tool starts, stops, reconfigures, and reports the status of
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the Kea servers.
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- :iscman:`kea-dhcp4` — The DHCPv4 server process. This process responds to
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DHCPv4 queries from clients.
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- :iscman:`kea-dhcp6` — The DHCPv6 server process. This process responds to
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DHCPv6 queries from clients.
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- :iscman:`kea-dhcp-ddns` — The DHCP Dynamic DNS process. This process acts
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as an intermediary between the DHCP servers and external DNS servers. It
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receives name update requests from the DHCP servers and sends DNS
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update messages to the DNS servers.
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- :iscman:`kea-admin` — This is a useful tool for database backend maintenance
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(creating a new database, checking versions, upgrading, etc.).
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- :iscman:`kea-lfc` — This process removes redundant information from the
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files used to provide persistent storage for the memfile database
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backend. While it can be run standalone, it is normally run as and
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when required by the Kea DHCP servers.
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- :iscman:`kea-ctrl-agent` — The Kea Control Agent (CA) is a daemon that exposes
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a RESTful control interface for managing Kea servers.
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- :iscman:`kea-netconf` - kea-netconf is an agent that provides a
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YANG/NETCONF interface for configuring Kea.
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- :iscman:`kea-shell` — This simple text client uses the REST interface to
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connect to the Kea Control Agent.
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- :iscman:`perfdhcp` — This is a DHCP benchmarking tool which simulates multiple
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clients to test both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server performance.
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The tools and modules are covered in full detail in this guide. In
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addition, manual pages are also provided in the default installation.
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Kea also provides C++ libraries and programmer interfaces for DHCP.
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These include detailed developer documentation and code examples.
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