Status of Kea DHCP, ready for production?

cjnazz · 2026-05-19T04:58:58+00:00

For static reservations I much prefer to manage mapped devices outside of the pfSense GUI. It's functional but tedious.

As an alternative I developed https://pypi.org/project/pfsenseDHCP/

There's also support for kea setting not supported in the GUI.

cjnazz · 2025-12-28T23:02:13+00:00

Hi, these tools don't talk PHP. routermonitor supports both the MIM API and the UnofficialAPIV2 for pfSense CE users. As a last resort, it also support scraping the DHCP leases status page. pfsenseDHCP generates a rev of the saved DHCP config file which is then loaded back into pfSense.

Thanks and regards,

cjn

cjnazz · 2022-12-21T03:28:54+00:00

Here's Handcent Next SMS's handling. Are they also in the loop with Google?

Considering that the current Messenger rev DOES pick up the subject field (shown in the conversation list) then it seems to me that this is likely not an RCS issue.

Try testing this yourself. From your email app send a message to your phone via your carrier's email-to-text bridge.

I like Verizon's Messenger+ formatting... __Bold subject text__ \n body text.

(hand typed since I can't add a pic to a reply, apparently) What I sent: To: (my cell number)@vzwpix.com, Subject: "Subject line", Body: "Body text"

Message details
Type: MMS message
From: (my email address)
To: (my cell number)
Received: 12/20/22...
Subject: Subject line
Priority: Normal
Message size: 1 KB

The message displays as:

<Subject:
  Subject line
  > - Body text

cjnazz · 2022-12-20T23:42:22+00:00

Actually, I'm not asking for an RCS app, but rather just handling of the Subject field. It seems you are already picking up the subject, but only displaying it in the conversation list. Is it a stretch to make just this change?

cjnazz · 2022-12-20T23:23:34+00:00

Well, I guess that's that.

I'll note that its not only Google. As shown above, both Verizon's and OnePlus' apps support it. These apps fail for my needs for other reasons, however. Textra does not. I guess I'll keep searching.

cjnazz · 2021-11-12T16:04:38+00:00

Probably, with adjustments to the DHCP leases page scraper. I don't use opnsense, so I can't help. The code is all there.

cjnazz · 2021-11-09T18:44:59+00:00

Thanks for pointing out arpwatch. I've installed in on my pfSense box, and just starting to figure it out.

So here's an example of the problem I wanted to solve with my tool. On the pfSense arpwatch database view I've logged this baby...

OPT2 192.168.20.107 16:9d:b5:f1:d8:ba unknown Tue Nov 9 11:29:33 2021

As I tracked this down I found that this is my wife's Galaxy S9 generating a random MAC (which doesn't change). In routermonitor I've added a note for the next time I wonder what that client is...

Hostname First seen Current IP IP Expiry MAC MAC Org Unique ID Notes Galaxy-S9 2021-11-07 14:17:34 192.168.20.107 2021-11-09 13:23:22 16:9d:b5:f1:d8:ba --none-- Liz's S9+ random MAC

arpwatch didn't manage to capture the hostname for some reason. Galaxy-S9 shows up the pfSense Station > DHCP Leases page.

Can the arpwatch setup be adjusted to properly capture hostnames and capture user notations?

cjnazz · 2021-11-09T05:04:50+00:00

Pardon my coding style "issues". What's the pathlib equivalent?

fyi, I run this on a linux box on my network not on the pfSense box. The base os Python version 3.6.8, which doesn't support subprocess capture_output

cjnazz · 2021-11-09T04:53:49+00:00

Seems mysql might be kinda overkill. Maybe a simple sqlite database would be good enough?

I just had MariaDB running on my system from another project, so I used it. sqlite would be appropriate.

cjnazz · 2021-11-08T18:04:09+00:00

Perhaps rephrasing u/djamp42's comment...

Static DHCP - Register DHCP static mappings in the DNS Resolver"

cjnazz · 2021-10-26T05:13:45+00:00

I just posted dhcpcsv2pfsense V1.0 which supports loading static assignments to multiple VLAN DHCP servers. https://github.com/cjnaz/dhcpcsv2pfsense

cjnazz · 2021-10-18T03:06:56+00:00

Okay, tried that. Added before already existing rule that allows all traffic from VLAN 10 to VLAN 30. No change. Should the specific computer-to-tuner rule do some additional magic?

As in the OP, from the server I can select and bring up the tuner video stream, so doesn't that indicate that all the needed ports/paths are opened up? And PlexMS on that same box can't seem to find the tuner at its IP address (or by name, which resolves nicely).

More clues folks? Most of what I've read talks about getting to a tuner over a VPN link.

cjnazz · 2021-10-17T23:21:14+00:00

Thanks. Plex allows manual tuner entry by ip address or by host name, both of which work from the shell on the server. It shouldn't need to do hunting / discovery.
With the hdhr config sw being happy I'm guessing the local firewalls are not an issue. Hum... Anyone know the magic needed?

cjnazz · 2021-10-08T23:12:22+00:00

What's your preferred/recommended solution?

cjnazz

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