[Kea-users] Disable multicast Listening

[Darren Ankney]

I’m assuming we are talking about DHCPv6 here.

I don’t believe there is a way to cause the server to not listen to the multicast address.  I believe RFC 8415 requires that the server listen on that address.  You could limit the server to listening on the loopback interface.  Then you could use the server’s firewall to forward traffic sent to port 567 to the server on the loopback interface.  You’d probably need to set something like this:

"interfaces-config": {
        "interfaces": [ “lo/::1" ]
    }

and then forward to ::1 using the firewall.

Disclaimer: I’ve never tried that but it might work.

> On Jan 3, 2023, at 8:05 PM, s k <sat98 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> Is there a way to stop Kea from listening on multicast address  , since our set up only uses relay forwarding to request for ip which is point to point. when i enable listening on global interface by default kea listens on multicast address and the number of requests received  over multicast is overwhelming . 
> Thanks
> skumar
> 
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