[Kea-users] kea 2.0.3 dhcp4 HA not working

[Kevin P. Fleming]

> I will definitely read through the docs on this.  And I know this next 
> question may be a bit difficult/subjective perhaps to answer - but my 
> use case is my home network with fairly long leases.  It’s also on the 
> “quiet” side.  This obviously isn’t the load/rps of say a college 
> campus, municipal wifi, etc.  Would multithreading still be recommended 
> ?  I’ve been running ISC dhcpd for years with no issues.

I'm in a similar situation (overly complex home network), and I'm currently using the 'legacy' HA implementation which requires the Kea control agent to be running alongside the DHCP server(s).

If you have no other need for the control agent (i.e. you're not running Stork), then you can choose between running the control agent or using the 'multithreaded' DHCP server implementation. The 'multithreaded' mode isn't related to performance or capacity as best I can tell, it's just about providing the HTTP endpoint needed for HA directly in the DHCP server itself.