Comment by pavel_odintsov

eBPF requires way more tooling which I find excessive for such easy task.

More complicated load balancing protocols may need more complicated balancing microcode and eBPF will be helpful in this case.

One of the main differences between BPF and eBPF is number of allowed instructions and it's very big for eBPF.

I think you can do XDP based DHCP server in theory and keep state in eBPF map. Not sure that it does make any sense but clearly doable.