3Com Switch 7750 Configuration Guide

Configuring DHCP Snooping 627
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There are two types of DHCP requests from DHCP clients, namely,
DHCP_DISCOVER and DHCP_REQUEST messages. Since some DHCP servers
process Option 82 in DHCP_DISCOVER messages while others process Option 82
in DHCP_DISCOVER messages, the DHCP snooping device will add Option 82 in
both types of DHCP requests.
Introduction to IP
Filtering
A denial-of-service (DoS) attack means an attempt of an attacker sending a large
number of forged address requests with different source IP addresses to the server
so that the network cannot work normally. The specific effects are as follows:
■ The resources on the server are exhausted, so the server does not respond to
other requests.
■ After receiving such type of packets, a switch needs to send them to the CPU
for processing. Too many request packets cause high CPU usage rate. As a
result, the CPU cannot work normally.
The switch can filter invalid IP packets through the DHCP-snooping table and IP
static binding table.
DHCP-snooping table
After DHCP snooping is enabled on a switch, a DHCP-snooping table is generated.
It is used to record IP addresses obtained from the DHCP server, MAC addresses,
the number of the port through which a client is connected to the
DHCP-snooping-enabled device, and the number of the VLAN to which the port
belongs to. These records are saved as entries in the DHCP-snooping table.
IP static binding table
The DHCP-snooping table only records information about clients that obtains IP
address dynamically through DHCP. If a fixed IP address is configured for a client,
the IP address and MAC address of the client cannot be recorded in the
DHCP-snooping table. Consequently, this client cannot pass the IP filtering of the
DHCP-snooping table, thus it cannot access external networks.
To solve this problem, the switch supports the configuration of static binding table
entries, that is, the binding relationship between IP address, MAC address, and the
port connecting to the client, so that packets of the client can be correctly
forwarded.
IP filtering
The switch can filter IP packets in the following two modes:
■ Filtering the source IP address in a packet. If the source IP address and the
number of the port that receives the packet are consistent with entries in the
DHCP-snooping table or static binding table, the switch regards the packet as a
valid packet and forwards it; otherwise, the switch drops it directly.
■ Filtering the source IP address and the source MAC address in a packet. If the
source IP address and source MAC address in the packet, and the number of
the port that receives the packet are consistent with entries in the
DHCP-snooping table or static binding table, the switch regards the packet as a
valid packet and forwards it; otherwise, the switch drops it directly.