facebook/dhcplb
dhcplb is Facebook's implementation of a load balancer for DHCP. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
76/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3701
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1060 stars · 86 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
dhcplb is Facebook's production DHCP v4/v6 load balancer and relayer, also usable as a multithreaded DHCP server framework. It balances DHCP traffic across server pools at datacenter scale, replacing unbalanced Anycast+ECMP approaches.
Use cases
- load balance DHCP requests across multiple DHCP servers
- relay DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 traffic in a datacenter
- run a scalable multithreaded DHCP server with backend service calls
- A/B test new DHCP server builds behind a relay layer
- assign IPs to bare-metal machines during provisioning
- avoid unbalanced DHCP load from Anycast+ECMP
When to choose
- you operate DHCP at large scale and need balanced traffic across server pools
- you need a DHCP server that can call external services for IP assignment
- you want to A/B test DHCP server implementations
- existing relayers lack load balancing features you need
When to avoid
- you need broadcast (v4) or multicast (v6) DHCP request handling
- you run a small network where a standard DHCP server suffices
- you need a turnkey DHCP solution without custom configuration
Facets
service · maturity active
networking proxy load-testing http-server networking infrastructure-as-code self-hosted microservices go self-hosted dhcp dhcpv4 dhcpv6 load-balancer relay datacenter bare-metal-provisioning linux docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/facebook/dhcplb · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5e0c7591fd09
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| facebook/dhcplb | main | 76 |
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