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<section id="q1-generic">
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<title>Where did the Kea name came from?</title>
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- <para>Kea is a name of high mountain parrot living in New Zealand.
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+ <para>Kea is the name of a high mountain parrot living in New Zealand.
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See this <ulink url="https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/kea-users/2014-October/000032.html" />
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for an extended answer.</para>
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<para>Kea is developed by a small team of engineers. Our resources are
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limited, so we need to prioritize requests. The complexity of a new
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- feature (how difficult is it to implement a feature and how likely it
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+ feature (how difficult it is to implement a feature and how likely it
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would break something that already works), amount of work required and
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expected popularity (i.e. how many users would actually benefit from it)
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are three leading factors. We sometimes also have contractual obligations.
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implement features that are actively requested first, but the reality
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is that we have more requests than we can handle, so some of them must
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be postponed, at least in the near future. So is your request likely to
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- be reject? Not at all. You can do many things to greatly improve chances
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- of your request to be fulfilled. First, it helps to explain why you
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+ be rejected? Not at all. You can do many things to greatly improve the
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+ chances of your request being fulfilled. First, it helps to explain why you
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need a feature. If your explanation is reasonable and there are likely
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other users that would benefit from it, the chances for Kea developers
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to put this task on a roadmap is better. Saying that you are willing
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to participate in tests (e.g. test engineering drops when they become
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available) is also helpful.</para>
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- <para>Another thing you can do to greatly improve chances of a feature
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+ <para>Another thing you can do to greatly improve the chances of a feature
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to appear is to actually develop it on your own and submit a patch.
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- That's a venue that people often forget about. Kea is an open source
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+ That's an avenue that people often forget about. Kea is open source
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software and we do accept patches. There are certain requirements, like
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code quality, comments, unit-tests, documentation, etc., but we have
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accepted a significant number of patches in the past, so it's doable.
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Accepted contributions range from minor documentation corrections to
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- significant new features, like support for new database type. Before
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+ significant new features, like support for a new database type. Before
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considering writing and submitting a patch, make sure you read
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- Contributor's Guide in <ulink url="http://git.kea.isc.org/~tester/kea/doxygen/">Kea Developer's Guide</ulink>.
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+ the Contributor's Guide in <ulink url="http://git.kea.isc.org/~tester/kea/doxygen/">Kea Developer's Guide</ulink>.
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</para>
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- <para>Kea is developed by ISC, which is non-profit organization.
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+ <para>Kea is developed by ISC, which is a non-profit organization.
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You may consider signing a development contract with us. In the past
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we did implement certain features due to contractual obligations.
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With additional funds we are able to put extra engineering efforts
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into Kea development. We can reshuffle our schedule or add extra
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- hands to the team if needed. Please keep in mind that Kea is an
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- open source software and its principal goal is to provide good DHCP
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+ hands to the team if needed. Please keep in mind that Kea is
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+ open source software and its principle goal is to provide a good DHCP
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solution that can be used by everyone. In other words, we may
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refuse a contract that would tie the solution to specific proprietary
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technology or make it unusable for other users. Also, we strive to
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make Kea a reference implementation, so if your proposal significantly
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- violates RFC, we may have a problem with that. Nevertheless, please
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+ violates a RFC, we may have a problem with that. Nevertheless, please
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talk to us and we may be able to find a solution.</para>
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<para>Finally, Kea has a <ulink url="http://kea.isc.org/roadmap">public
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roadmap</ulink>, with releases happening several times each year. We tend
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- to not modify features for current milestone, unless there are very good
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+ to not modify features for the current milestone, unless there are very good
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reasons to do so. Therefore "I'd like a featury X in 6 months" is much
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better received than "I'd like a feature X now".</para>
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</section>
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<title>Frequently Asked Questions about DHCPv4</title>
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<section iq="q1-dhcp4">
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- <title>I set up a firewall, but Kea server still receives the traffic. Why?</title>
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+ <title>I set up a firewall, but the Kea server still receives the traffic. Why?</title>
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- <para>Any DHCPv4 server must be able to receive from and send traffic to the
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+ <para>Any DHCPv4 server must be able to receive from and send traffic to
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hosts that don't have an IPv4 address assigned yet. That is typically not
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- possible with regular UDP sockets, therefore Kea DHCPv4 server uses raw
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+ possible with regular UDP sockets, therefore the Kea DHCPv4 server uses raw
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sockets by default. Raw sockets mean that the incoming packets are received
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as raw Ethernet frames, thus bypassing the whole kernel IP stack, including
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any firewalling rules your kernel may provide.</para>
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<para>If you do not want the server to use raw sockets, it is possible to
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- config Kea DHCPv4 server to use UDP sockets instead. See <command>dhcp-socket-type</command>
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+ configure the Kea DHCPv4 server to use UDP sockets instead. See <command>dhcp-socket-type</command>
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described in <xref linkend="dhcp4-interface-configuration" />. However,
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- using UDP sockets have certain limitations. In particular, it may not allow
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- to send responses directly to the clients without IPv4 addresses assigned.
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+ using UDP sockets has certain limitations. In particular, they may not allow
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+ for sending responses directly to clients without IPv4 addresses assigned.
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That's ok, if all your traffic is coming through relay agents.</para>
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</section>
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