[Kea-users] How do I install and configure ISC Kea DHCP Server on RHEL 9.0?

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 06:17, Ricardo J. Barberis <ricardo at palmtx.com.ar> wrote:
>
> El martes, 15 de noviembre de 2022 14:12:43 -03 Sandro escribio:
> > On 15-11-2022 17:20, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
> > > Sorry for my previous emtpy email, I accidentally pressed send :(
> >
> > Happen to all of us. ;)
>
> Those emails got to the list? I sent them from a wrong account and they
> bounced so I though they went to the limbo.
>
> Three mails, two mistakes: it's not my day haha.
>
> > > El martes, 15 de noviembre de 2022 06:03:47 -03 Sandro escribio:
> > >> On 15-11-2022 05:50, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > >>> On 11/14/2022 7:53 AM, Dan Oachs wrote:
> > >>>> I would start by installing the cloudsmith repository and then you can
> > >>>> use yum/dnf to install kea:
> > >>>> https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/kea-2-2/setup/#formats-rpm
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Once you have kea installed, follow the Kea documentation here:
> > >>>> https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.2.0/
> > >>>
> > >>> Is there any reason to avoid kea-2.3? I've been using 2.1.7 on CentOS 7
> > >>> and am about to migrate my config to a Rocky 8 server.
> > >>
> > >> I would recommend, if possible, to update straight to Rocky 9, or
> > >> better, since you are on CentOS, to CentOS Stream 9.
> > >>
> > >> Otherwise you'll have to upgrade again in ~18 month, when Rocky 8
> > >> (CentOS Stream 8) goes EOL. Kea is available for el9 from EPEL (version
> > >> 2.2.0).
> > >>
> > >> -- Sandro
> > >
> > > I just wanted to clarify that Rocky Linux (and Alma Linux) follow RHEL,
> > > not
> > > CentOS Stream, so you have 10 years of support.
> >
> > Since RHEL 8, Red Hat offers 5 years of full support and another 5 years
> > of maintenance support [1]. I'm no expert on the difference, but to my
> > understanding only high priority issues will be fixed at Red Hat's
> > discretion during maintenance support. The last minor release of RHEL 8,
> > which marks the end of full support, is scheduled for May 2024 [2].
> >
> > So, yeah, I was wrong saying RHEL 8 is going EOL in May 2024. But since
> > RHEL 9 is already out, I'd go with that. In the same fashion I will
> > shortly upgrade from Fedora 35 to 37, skipping 36.
> >
> > Since CentOS Stream is a different beast all together, Rocky 9 (or any
> > other RHEL clone version 9) would be my choice when upgrading from
> > CentOS 7. For a fresh install, I'd definitely consider CentOS Stream 9.
>
> Definitely, I also would go with Rocky or Alma over Stream to replace CentOS
> 7, but I'm a bit more conservative and would wait till EL 9.1 before jumping
> versions :)

CentOS 7.9 is going EOL soon.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore

>
>
> > [1] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
> > [2]
> > https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/red-hat-enterprise-linux-> rhel
> >
> > -- Sandro
>
>
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