ARTICLE: How we made FreeRADIUS the best open source DHCP server

[Network RADIUS]

** DHCP enhancements to FreeRADIUS 3
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As part of our contributions to the FreeRADIUS community, Network RADIUS took on the task of overhauling its DHCP support. The result is the same highly flexible and configurable DHCP server, but now easier to configure and outperforms both ISC and Kea DHCP in most common scenarios. And it’s available now, in FreeRADIUS 3.0.22  (https://freeradius.org/releases/)

After running a battery of tests against ISC DHCP and Kea, we identified issues with FreeRADIUS that needed to be addressed in order to improve compliance as well as performance.

We like to think that we understand network administrators pretty well. We know that performance is important, but it’s not the only consideration. In FreeRADIUS 3.0.22 we are excited to provide a DHCP server that:
	• Outperforms ISC DHCP and Kea
	• Has the flexibility to adapt to your network rather than the other way around
	• Implements query strategies that are optimized for the most common databases
	• Simplifies data workflow
	• Empowers real time monitoring
In this post, we’ll provide a high-level overview of the changes we made and why, as well as the final performance results.

Read the full article… 
https://networkradius.com/articles/2021/05/20/DHCP-enhancements-in-FreeRADIUS-3.html


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** What is the relationship between Network RADIUS and FreeRADIUS?
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FreeRADIUS is an open source implementation of the RADIUS protocol and was written by Alan DeKok in 1999.

Network RADIUS is a private, for-profit company founded by Alan DeKok which provides commercial support for FreeRADIUS. The Network RADIUS team has been the primary contributor to FreeRADIUS for the last 20 years. The FreeRADIUS mailing list, wiki, and documentation are all moderated and maintained by the Network RADIUS team.

FreeRADIUS has always been, and will always continue to be, open source. The Network RADIUS team provides commercial support to paying clients, and free product development for the FreeRADIUS community at large.

All of our software development for FreeRADIUS is integrated into the Open Source platform, and will always continue to be.