Comparison of DHCP server software

The following comparison of DHCP and DHCPv6 server compares general and technical information for a number of DHCP server software programs.

General
Name Author First public release latest stable version Cost Software license Written in
dhcpy6d[dh 1] Henri Wahl (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden) 2012 1.0.3 20 November 2020 (2020-11-20) free software GPLv2 Python
dibbler[di 1] Tomasz Mrugalski and Marek Senderski 2004 1 August 2015 (2015-08-01) free software GPL C, C++, Shell[di 2]
dnsmasq Simon Kelley 2001 2.81 (April 11, 2020 (2020-04-11)) [±][1] free software GPLv2 or GPLv3 C
ISC DHCP Internet Systems Consortium 1999 Extended Support Version: 4.1-ESV-R16 (January 22, 2020 (2020-01-22)) [±][2]

Current-stable: 4.4.2 (January 22, 2020 (2020-01-22)) [±][3] [4]

 free software ISC License MPL 2.0 for ver 4.4.x C
FreeRADIUS[freeradius 1] FreeRADIUS Development Team 2012 (First stable release including DHCPv4 support) FreeRADIUS 3.0.21[5] (March 24, 2020 (2020-03-24)[6]) [±] free software GPLv2 C
Jagornet DHCP[jag 1] Jagornet Technologies (A. Gregory Rabil) 2011 2.0.0 (October 29, 2014 (2014-10-29)) free software GPLv3 Java
Kea DHCP[kea 1] Internet Systems Consortium 2014 Kea 1.8.0 [7] (August 26, 2020 (2020-08-26)) free software MPL 2.0 C++
udhcpd Matthew Ramsay 1999 busybox 1.32.1 (January 1, 2021 (2021-01-01)) [±][8] free software GNU GPLv2 only C
WIDE-DHCPv6[wi 1] KAME project ? 20080615 (15 June 2008 (2008-06-15)) free software BSD License C, shell

Operating system requirement

In this overview of operating system support for the discussed DHCP server, the following terms indicate the level of support:

  • No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
  • Yes indicates that it has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.

This compilation is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.

Server BSD Solaris Linux Mac OS X Windows
dhcpy6d Yes ? Yes Yes No
dibbler Yes No Yes Yes Yes
dnsmasq Yes No Yes Yes No
ISC DHCP Yes Yes Yes No No
FreeRADIUS Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Jagornet DHCP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Kea DHCP Yes No Yes Yes No
udhcpd Yes Yes Yes Yes No
WIDE-DHCPv6 Yes ? Yes ? No

    Feature matrix
    Server BOOTP DHCP DHCPv6 other interface load-balancing failover
    dhcpy6d No No Yes PXE ? ? ?
    dibbler No No Yes ? ? No No
    dnsmasq Yes Yes Yes PXE, TFTP ? No No
    ISC DHCP Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes
    FreeRADIUS ? Yes No ? ? ? ?
    Jagornet DHCP Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
    Kea DHCP Yes Yes Yes PXE ? Yes Yes
    udhcpd Yes Yes No ? ? ? ?
    WIDE-DHCPv6 No No Yes ? ? ? ?

    RFC matrix
    Server RFC 951 RFC 1534 RFC 1542 RFC 2131 RFC 2132 RFC 3046 RFC 3315 RFC 3319 RFC 3633 RFC 3646 RFC 3736 RFC 3942 RFC 4242 RFC 4361 RFC 4436 RFC 5007 RFC 6221 RFC 6939 RFC 8415
    dhcpy6d ?????????????????Supports using the MAC address on local/non-relayed requests as the identifier?
    dibbler NoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoYes?NoNo
    Dnsmasq ???????????????????
    ISC DHCP ?????????????????v4.3 and later?
    FreeRADIUS ???????????????????
    Jagornet DHCP YesYesYesPartial?YesPartial?Yes??YesYesYesYesYes???
    Kea DHCP YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes?Yes?YesYes
    udhcpd ???????????????????
    WIDE DHCPv6 ???????????????????

    See also

    References

    General
    1. Kelley, Simon (11 Apr 2020). "Dnsmasq download page".
    2. "DHCP 4.1-ESV-R16 Announcement". 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
    3. "DHCP 4.4.2 Announcement". 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
    4. "Downloads; Internet Systems Consortium". isc.org. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
    5. "Releases". Retrieved 20 August 2020.
    6. "FreeRADIUS - Release Notes". FreeRADIUS. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
    7. "Kea release notes". kea.isc.org. Internet Systems Consortium. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
    8. "Release history". Retrieved January 6, 2021.

    FreeRADIUS
    1. "DHCP". www.freeradius.org. Retrieved 16 August 2015.

    Jagornet DHCP
    1. "Jagornet DHCP". www.jagornet.com. Retrieved 29 October 2014.

    Kea DHCP
    1. "Kea". isc.org/kea/. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2014-08-31.

    dhcpy6d
    1. "dhcpy6d :: Home". ifw-dresden.de. Retrieved 2014-06-01.

    dibbler
    1. "DHCPv6: Dibbler - a portable DHCPv6". klub.com.pl. Archived from the original on 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
    2. "tomaszmrugalski/dibbler · GitHub". GitHub. Retrieved 2014-06-13.

    WIDE DHCPD
    1. "WIDE-DHCPv6". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
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