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

General

Name Author First public release Latest stable version Cost Software license Written in
dhcpy6d[dhcpy6d 1] Henri Wahl 2012 1.6.0

27 July 2024 (2024-07-27)

 free software GPLv2 Python
dnsmasq Simon Kelley 2001 2.92 (January 14, 2026 (2026-01-14)) [±][1] free software GPLv2 or GPLv3 C
ISC DHCP Internet Systems Consortium 1999 Extended Support Version: 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 (May 26, 2021 (2021-05-26)) [±][2]

Current-stable: 4.4.3-P1 (EOL December 2022) (October 5, 2022 (2022-10-05)) [±][3] [4]
This software has reached EOL! Superseded by Kea (see below) [5]

 free software ISC MPL 2.0 for ver 4.4.x C
FreeRADIUS[freeradius 1] FreeRADIUS Development Team 2012 (First stable release including DHCPv4 support) FreeRADIUS 3.2.8[6] (August 20, 2025 (2025-08-20)[7]) [±] free software GPLv2 C
Kea DHCP[kea 1] Internet Systems Consortium 2014 Kea 3.0.3 [8] (March 25, 2026 (2026-03-25)) free software MPL 2.0 C++
udhcpd Matthew Ramsay 1999 busybox 1.36.1 (May 19, 2023 (2023-05-19)) [±][9] free software GNU GPLv2 only C

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 macOS Windows
dhcpy6d Yes No Yes Yes No
dnsmasq Yes No Yes Yes No
ISC DHCP Yes Yes Yes No No
FreeRADIUS Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Kea DHCP Yes No Yes Yes No
udhcpd Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Feature matrix

Server BOOTP DHCP DHCPv6 Other Load balancing Failover
dhcpy6d No No Yes PXE, Dynamic DNS Yes Yes
dnsmasq Yes Yes Yes PXE, TFTP No No
ISC DHCP Yes Yes Yes Dynamic DNS[10][11] Yes Yes
Kea Yes Yes Yes Dynamic DNS[12] Yes Yes
FreeRADIUS No Yes Yes RADIUS, VMPS Yes Yes
udhcpd Yes Yes No ? ? ?

See also

  • Comparison of DNS server software

References

General

  1. ↑ Kelley, Simon (14 Jan 2026). "Dnsmasq download page".
  2. ↑ "New releases of ISC DHCP are available (DHCP 4.4.2-P1, DHCP 4.1-ESV-R16-P1)". 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  3. ↑ "New releases of ISC DHCP are available (DHCP 4.4.3-P1, DHCP 4.1-ESV-R16-P2)". 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  4. ↑ "Downloads - ISC". isc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  5. ↑ "ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL". Internet Systems Consortium. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Releases". Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "FreeRADIUS - Release Notes". FreeRADIUS. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "Kea 3.0.3, Mar 2026, Release Notes". Internet Systems Consortium. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "Release history". Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  10. ↑ "ISC DHCP 4.4 Manual Pages - dhcpd.conf". kb.isc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  11. ↑ "ISC DHCP support for Standard DDNS". kb.isc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  12. ↑ "13. The DHCP-DDNS Server — Kea 2.3.4 documentation". kea.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2023-02-19.

dhcpy6d

  1. ↑ "About: dhcpy6d". dhcpy6d.de. Retrieved 2021-04-21.

FreeRADIUS

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

Kea DHCP

  1. ↑ "Kea". isc.org. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
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