Comparison of DHCP server software
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 |
| Henri Wahl | 2012 | 1.6.0 | Python | |||
| dnsmasq | Simon Kelley | 2001 | C | |||
| ISC DHCP | Internet Systems Consortium | 1999 | This software has reached EOL! Superseded by Kea | C | ||
| FreeRADIUS | FreeRADIUS Development Team | 2012 | FreeRADIUS | C | ||
| Kea DHCP | Internet Systems Consortium | 2014 | Kea 2.6.1 | C++ | ||
| udhcpd | Matthew Ramsay | 1999 | busybox | 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 | |||||
| dnsmasq | |||||
| ISC DHCP | |||||
| FreeRADIUS | |||||
| Kea DHCP | |||||
| udhcpd |