DHCP Snooping – Filter those broadcasts!

I had a specific requirement recently and I wanted to test it’s behaviour. In particular the feature is DHCP snooping. Let’s quickly go over the DHCP process at a high level to see how it works: DHCP Let’s take the following simple diagram to show what’s going on. We have a switch with two hosts connected. We also have a DHCP server. I’m using generic names as I’ll be testing this on different switches. Assume all devices are in the same vlan. ...

10 December 2014 · 5 min · 1001 words · Darren O'Connor