Cisco DHCP Snooping on Uplink Port??

All -

I have a 3750 stack group that all my users are plugged into as their
core switch, however, I also have a 3524 hanging off this stack group
as well. Recently, someone plugged a rouge DHCP server into the 3524,
causing me all sorts of grief. My question is since my 3750 supports
DHCP Snooping, can I turn this on to solve all my problems?

Thanks,
Andrew

 

Hmmm, I suspect not -- DHCP snooping is, if I understand correctly,
for the case where you might have to relay a DHCP request over a router.

Would it perhaps work to turn on an ACL on the 3750 to block the
DHCP replies from the 3524 ?

 

Recently, someone plugged a rouge DHCP server into the 3524,

That is DHCP forwarding.

It has cheered me up no end that just
once in a while Walter has misssed the target.
It is nice to see that there is a regular fallible
human on the other end of the handle.

I don't like the name Cisco have chosen
for this feature though I find it confusing too.


http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...figuration_guide_chapter09186a0080435791.html

Overview of DHCP Snooping
DHCP snooping is a DHCP security feature
that provides network security by filtering
untrusted DHCP messages and by building and
maintaining a DHCP snooping binding database
(also referred to as a DHCP snooping binding table).

DHCP snooping acts like a firewall between
untrusted hosts and DHCP servers. You
can use DHCP snooping to differentiate
between untrusted interfaces connected
to the end user and trusted interfaces
connected to the DHCP server or another switch.

 

;-)

I have an excuse -- hang on, it's right here, I saw it just a few days
ago, it was on my desk in one of these piles... or was it in
the computer room.... lemme see.... oh, I hope I didn't take it home,
because if my spouse borrowed it, I might not get it back for weeks!

 

Hi Andrew,

I have to disagree with Walter on this (although he has vastly more
experience than I), about 2 weeks ago I started investigating this
functionality (DHCP Snooping) as well and as near as we can see, DHCP
Snooping does exactly what you (we) want., IE when enabled on a Layer
2 ACCESS port it blocks DHCP Server messages arriving FROM that port.

Its not clear from what I have read so far, but I can't see how/why
one would use it on Trunk ports if all your ACCESS ports are covered
correctly. In our case we would be using it on 2950's only.

Cheers................pk.