Product
One source of truth for addresses, leases, and names.
Prefixes, pools, reservations, live leases. DHCP nodes are identical. Shared Postgres. Relays to a UDP VIP.
IPAM is authoritative
Lattice treats IPAM as the source of truth. A reservation is a row the DHCP plane cannot violate. Free inventory and excluded ranges are not “managed IPs.” Leased, reserved, and quarantined addresses are.
Scale-out DHCP
dhcpd processes share the database. Add a node, keep the same pools. Relays point at a VIP. There is no per-node license.
DNS adapters
GSS-TSIG to Active Directory. TSIG or API to BIND and PowerDNS. Optional embedded auth DNS. The ack path never waits on DNS.