Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Series, Software Configuration Manual

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Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring DHCP Features and IP Source Guard
Understanding DHCP Features
Figure 1-1 DHCP Relay Agent in a Metropolitan Ethernet Network
When you enable the DHCP snooping information option 82 on the switch, this sequence of
events occurs:
• The host (DHCP client) generates a DHCP request and broadcasts it on the network.
•
When the switch receives the DHCP request, it adds the option-82 information in the packet. By
default, the remote-ID suboption is the switch MAC address, and the circuit-ID suboption is the port
identifier,
vlan-mod-port , from which the packet is received.You can configure the remote ID and
circuit ID. For information on configuring these suboptions, see the “Enabling DHCP Snooping and
Option 82” section on page 1-12 .
• If the IP address of the relay agent is configured, the switch adds this IP address in the DHCP packet.
•
The switch forwards the DHCP request that includes the option-82 field to the DHCP server.
• The DHCP server receives the packet. If the server is option-82-capable, it can use the remote ID,
the circuit ID, or both to assign IP addresses and implement policies, such as restricting the number
of IP addresses that can be assigned to a single remote ID or circuit ID. Then the DHCP server
echoes the option-82 field in the DHCP reply.
•
The DHCP server unicasts the reply to the switch if the request was relayed to the server by the
switch. The switch verifies that it originally inserted the option-82 data by inspecting the remote ID
and possibly the circuit ID fields. The switch removes the option-82 field and forwards the packet
to the switch port that connects to the DHCP client that sent the DHCP request.
In the default suboption configuration, when the described sequence of events occurs, the values in these
fields in
Figure 1-2 do not change:
•
Circuit-ID suboption fields
– Suboption type
–
Length of the suboption type
– Circuit-ID type
–
Length of the circuit-ID type
• Remote-ID suboption fields
–
Suboption type
– Length of the suboption type
–
Remote-ID type
– Length of the remote-ID type
Subscribers
Catalyst switch
(DHCP relay agent)
Host A
(DHCP client)
Access layer
DHCP
server
Host B
(DHCP client)
98813
VLAN 10