Enterasys Networks 9034313-07 manual Dhcp Snooping Dynamic ARP Inspection, Dhcp Snooping Overview

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DHCP Snooping and

Dynamic ARP Inspection

This chapter describes two security features:

DHCP snooping, which monitors DHCP messages between a DHCP client and DHCP server to filter harmful DHCP messages and to build a database of authorized address bindings

Dynamic ARP inspection, which uses the bindings database created by the DHCP snooping feature to reject invalid and malicious ARP packets

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DHCP Snooping Overview

DHCP snooping monitors DHCP messages between DHCP clients and DHCP servers to filter harmful DHCP messages and to build a bindings database of {MAC address, IP address, VLAN ID, port} tuples that are considered authorized.

DHCP snooping is disabled globally and on all VLANs by default. Ports are untrusted by default. DHCP snooping must be enabled globally and on specific VLANs. Ports within the VLANs must be configured as trusted or untrusted. DHCP servers must be reached through trusted ports.

DHCP snooping enforces the following security rules:

DHCP packets from a DHCP server (DHCP OFFER, DHCP ACK, DHCP NAK) are dropped if received on an untrusted port.

DHCP RELEASE and DHCP DECLINE messages are dropped if they are for a MAC address in the snooping database but the bindingʹs interface in the database is different from the interface where the message was received.

On untrusted interfaces, the switch drops DHCP packets whose source MAC address does not match the client hardware address. This feature is a configurable option.

DHCP Message Processing

The hardware identifies all incoming DHCP packets on ports where DHCP snooping is enabled. On untrusted ports, the hardware traps all incoming DHCP packets to the CPU. On trusted ports,

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