Plan and leases
- Lattice
- One catalog
- Windows DHCP
- Scope + spreadsheet
- ISC / Kea
- conf + lease file
Software-only DDI
Replace Windows DHCP and the spreadsheet.
The reservation you save is the next Offer — dhcpd will hand that IP to the client. Helpdesk pastes a MAC and lands on the lease. Discover on one node and Ack on another is the same pool. Names follow the grant into the DNS you already run. latticeddi.com — Ubuntu tarball, no appliance.
Beta
Join the Beta — Get Lifetime Starter Access Free
Run this on a real network and tell us what breaks. In exchange you get a permanent free Starter license: 5,000 managed IPs, three-node HA. Same binaries as paid Starter. No SLA. Not a sale. If you outgrow 5,000 IPs, upgrade and pay only the annual delta versus Starter list.
A Tuesday
Helpdesk and the network team share one search bar, one Work queue, and occupancy History.
Work is the named queues — Why NAK, Relays, stale reservations — not a log dump. History is every remaining lease row, as-of a day, CSV. You do not start with a packet capture, and there is no primary to restart. Four moments from a normal Tuesday, with the screens they actually use.
9:05
What IP does this MAC have?
Helpdesk pastes a suffix — 28:10:01 or Cisco 0028.1001. Search lands on the leases. No Wireshark, no lease-file grep. Neteng is not the lookup API.
Last three octets are enough. Cisco dotted form works. 11:20
Give the printer .10 forever
Operator adds a DHCP client reservation in the subnet map. That write is the next Offer — no scope to edit, no sheet to sync. Stale reservations show up in Work, not as a mystery NAK.
The reservation is a row in the map. The next Discover honors it. 2:40
Laptop will not get an address
Overview shows last grant and Work names the queue: Relays, Why NAK, Wrong MAC. No capture first. The network team fixes the relay’s address (giaddr) or a leftover Windows scope — without restarting a primary that does not exist.
Work names the queue. Lattice never auto-reclaims. 4:10
Who had this IP last Tuesday?
Paste the IP, MAC, or hostname. Occupancy is every remaining lease row — who held .55, which NICs this hostname used, where this MAC has been. As-of a day on this computer. CSV. Not Audit, not a ping scan.
A laptop that changed NIC. As-of a day. The grant is the occupancy log.
The operator console · Who had this IP last Tuesday? · History · Helpdesk playbook
One catalog
The reservation you save is the next Offer.
Windows and ISC keep a plan in one place and leases in another. Lattice has one catalog, so Work can name the failure. Save a reservation; dhcpd offers that row. Names follow the grant into AD or BIND.
- prefix
- subnet
- pool
- reservation
- assignment
- exclude
- lease
- Work
Today — two systems
Plan
- Spreadsheet
- dhcpd.conf
DHCP
- MMC scopes
- Lease file
Keep them in sync yourself.
Lattice — one catalog
The reservation you save is the next Offer.
- prefix
- subnet
- pool
- reservation
- assignment
- lease
dhcpd serves these rows. Console writes them. There is no second copy to sync. A/PTR follow the grant into the DNS you already run.
Operate
- Lattice
- Browser console
- Windows DHCP
- MMC, per server
- ISC / Kea
- conf, or Stork extra
Scale-out DHCP
- Lattice
- Same pool on every node
- Windows DHCP
- Limited HA · hashed pair
- ISC / Kea
- Limited HA · hashed pair
DNS
- Lattice
- A/PTR into the DNS you run
- Windows DHCP
- Microsoft DNS
- ISC / Kea
- Scripts / BYO
Find a MAC
- Lattice
- Console search
- Windows DHCP
- MMC or export
- ISC / Kea
- grep the lease file
Who held this IP
- Lattice
- Occupancy history — every hold, as-of a day, switch port, CSV
- Windows DHCP
- Current lease or an export
- ISC / Kea
- grep dhcpd.leases / Stork
Deploy
- Lattice
- Tarball, no phone-home
- Windows DHCP
- Windows Server
- ISC / Kea
- Linux package
Meter
- Lattice
- Managed IPs
- Windows DHCP
- Per server
- ISC / Kea
- You operate it
| Windows DHCP | ISC / Kea | Lattice | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan and leases | Scope + spreadsheet | conf + lease file | One catalog |
| Operate | MMC, per server | conf, or Stork extra | Browser console |
| Scale-out DHCP | Limited HA · hashed pair | Limited HA · hashed pair | Same pool on every node |
| DNS | Microsoft DNS | Scripts / BYO | A/PTR into the DNS you run |
| Find a MAC | MMC or export | grep the lease file | Console search |
| Who held this IP | Current lease or an export | grep dhcpd.leases / Stork | Occupancy history — every hold, as-of a day, switch port, CSV |
| Deploy | Windows Server | Linux package | Tarball, no phone-home |
| Meter | Per server | You operate it | Managed IPs |
Same pool on every node
Identical dhcpd processes share the lease store. Discover on one node and Ack on another is the same lease. Add a node without splitting scopes.
Keep the DNS you already run
Ack never waits on a nameserver. A worker writes A/PTR into AD, BIND, or Unbound after the grant. Option 6 stays pointed at the resolver your laptops already use.
What you install
One product. The license file sets the cap.
Same tarball for Community and Starter. Beta signup issues a lifetime perpetual Starter license so you can run extra dhcpd and three-node HA. Upload a paid file on that cluster when you pay — no reinstall. Bring scopes over as prefixes, pools, and reservations.
Community and paid
Meter is live addresses, not prefix size.
Managed IPs = leased + reserved + quarantined + assigned. A /16 with 200 live addresses is 200. Existing leases keep renewing if you hit the cap.
- Community
- Perpetual free SKU: 1,000 IPs, one node. Beta signup instead issues a lifetime perpetual Starter license so you can test HA.
Create an account and download the software. Signup includes a lifetime perpetual Starter license (5,000 IPs, three-node HA) on the same install you will keep, in exchange for real-world testing and feedback. Paid licenses are not for sale yet; the pricing table is the published list. When purchase opens, a signed file raises the cap. No reinstall.
Or write hello@latticeddi.com for Starter, Professional, Team, Org, or Scale.