kea: kea (DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server) kea: kea: KEA is a new open source DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server being developed by kea: Internet Systems Consortium. The objective of this project is to kea: provide a very high-performance, extensible DHCP server engine for use kea: by enterprises and service providers, either as is or with extensions kea: and modifications. kea: kea: Kea provides DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers, a dynamic DNS update module, kea: a portable DHCP library, libdhcp++, and a DHCP benchmarking tool, kea: perfdhcp.