DHCP server configurations that have been tested with the Tinkerbell Stack

dnsmasq.conf

port=0

# Tinkerbell requires that the Host must use a reservation (static ip).
dhcp-host=52:54:00:ee:0d:0b,thedoctor,192.168.2.144
dhcp-option=6,8.8.8.8
dhcp-option=3,192.168.2.1
dhcp-range=192.168.2.0,static

# This is the part that gets us through the iPXE infinite boot loop. https://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading
dhcp-match=tinkerbell, option:user-class, Tinkerbell
dhcp-boot=tag:!tinkerbell,ipxe.efi,none,192.168.2.112
dhcp-boot=tag:tinkerbell,http://192.168.2.112/auto.ipxe

kea.json

{
    "Dhcp4": {
        "control-socket": {
            "socket-type": "unix",
            "socket-name": "/var/run/socket-dhcp-v4"
        },
        "interfaces-config": {
            "interfaces": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        "lease-database": {
            "type": "memfile",
            "name": "leases4"
        },
        "valid-lifetime": 4000,
        "host-reservation-identifiers": [
            "hw-address"
        ],
        "client-classes": [
            {
                "name": "tinkerbell",
                "test": "substring(option[77].hex,0,10) == 'Tinkerbell'",
                "boot-file-name": "http://192.168.2.112/auto.ipxe"
            },
            {
                "name": "default",
                "test": "not(substring(option[77].hex,0,10) == 'Tinkerbell')",
                "boot-file-name": "ipxe.efi"
            }
        ],
        "subnet4": [
            {
                "subnet": "192.168.2.0/24",
                "next-server": "192.168.2.112",
                "option-data": [
                    {
                        "name": "routers",
                        "data": "192.168.2.1"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "domain-name-servers",
                        "data": "1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8"
                    }
                ],
                "reservations": [
                    {
                        "hw-address": "52:54:00:ee:0d:0b",
                        "ip-address": "192.168.2.144",
                        "hostname": "testvm1"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "loggers": [
            {
                "name": "kea-dhcp4",
                "output_options": [
                    {
                        "output": "stdout"
                    }
                ],
                "severity": "WARN"
            }
        ]
    }
}