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Verifying That a Trusted DHCP Server Is Working Correctly

Purpose

Verify that a DHCP trusted server is working on the switch. See what happens when the DHCP server is trusted and then untrusted.

Action

Send some DHCP requests from network devices (here they are DHCP clients) connected to the switch.

Display the DHCP snooping information when the interface on which the DHCP server connects to the switch is trusted. The following output results when requests are sent from the MAC addresses and the server has provided the IP addresses and leases:

DHCP Snooping Information:
MAC Address         IP Address    Lease    Type     VLAN          Interface

----------------- ---------- ----- ---- ---- ---------
00:05:85:3A:82:77 192.0.2.17 600 dynamic employee—vlan ge-0/0/1.0
00:05:85:3A:82:79 192.0.2.18 653 dynamic employee—vlan ge-0/0/1.0
00:05:85:3A:82:80 192.0.2.19 720 dynamic employee—vlan ge-0/0/2.0
00:05:85:3A:82:81 192.0.2.20 932 dynamic employee—vlan ge-0/0/2.0
00:05:85:3A:82:83 192.0.2.21 1230 dynamic employee—vlan ge-0/0/2.0
00:05:85:27:32:88 192.0.2.22 3200 dynamic employee—vlan ge-0/0/2.0

Meaning

When the interface on which the DHCP server connects to the switch has been set to trusted, the output (see preceding sample) shows, for each MAC address, the assigned IP address and lease time—that is, the time, in seconds, remaining before the lease expires.

If the DHCP server had been configured as untrusted, no entries would be added to the DHCP snooping database and nothing would be shown in the output of the show dhcp snooping binding command.

Published: 2013-01-17