Re: DHCP snooping across several switches

Sep 24, 2005 3 Replies

It seems that this message did not make into the group (google does not show it), so I repeat.



Please consider the following setup (use a fixed width font):



CustomerB | Server -Fe0/1- SwitchA -Fe0/2- SwitchB - CustomerA | CustomerC



I enable DHCP snooping on SwitchA and mark port Fe0/1 as trusted. Everything works fine for the customers.



However as soon as I enable DHCP snooping on SwitchB also, SwitchA refuses to forward DHCP requests from CustomerA to Server because:



SwitchA: DHCP_SNOOPING: drop message with non-zero giaddr or option



82 value on untrusted port, message type: DHCPREQUEST

On SwitchA, I tried to mark Fe0/2 also as trusted, but this causes a broadcast storm of DHCPREQUESTs (it seems that SwitchA receives a DHCPREQUEST from CustomerA via Fe0/2 and forwards it back to Fe0/2 because it is a trusted port).



Any ideas how I could protect the whole switched network from rogue DHCP servers? There is only one authorized DHCP server (the Server behind SwitchA).


All the customers are in the same vlan.

And the DHCP server is in this vlan too. Any more ideas?

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