Microsens MS453490M Management Guide - Manual (Page 344)

C HAPTER 14 | Security Measures
DHCP Snooping
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DHCP server, any packets received from untrusted ports are
dropped.
DHCP Snooping Option 82
◆ DHCP provides a relay mechanism for sending information about its
DHCP clients or the relay agent itself to the DHCP server. Also known as
DHCP Option 82, it allows compatible DHCP servers to use the
information when assigning IP addresses, or to set other services or
policies for clients. It is also an effective tool in preventing malicious
network attacks from attached clients on DHCP services, such as IP
Spoofing, Client Identifier Spoofing, MAC Address Spoofing, and
Address Exhaustion.
◆ DHCP Snooping must be enabled for Option 82 information to be
inserted into request packets.
◆ When the DHCP Snooping Information Option 82 is enabled, the
requesting client (or an intermediate relay agent that has used the
information fields to describe itself) can be identified in the DHCP
request packets forwarded by the switch and in reply packets sent back
from the DHCP server. This information may specify the MAC address or
IP address of the requesting device (that is, the switch in this context).
By default, the switch also fills in the Option 82 circuit-id field with
information indicating the local interface over which the switch received
the DHCP client request, including the port and VLAN ID. This allows
DHCP client-server exchange messages to be forwarded between the
server and client without having to flood them to the entire VLAN.
◆ If DHCP Snooping Information Option 82 is enabled on the switch,
information may be inserted into a DHCP request packet received over
any VLAN (depending on DHCP snooping filtering rules). The
information inserted into the relayed packets includes the circuit-id and
remote-id, as well as the gateway Internet address.
◆ When the switch receives DHCP packets from clients that already
include DHCP Option 82 information, the switch can be configured to
set the action policy for these packets. The switch can either drop the
DHCP packets, keep the existing information, or replace it with the
switch’s relay information.