Servers could not obtain ip address from dhcp server after ip dhcp snooping is enabled.

The topology

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In SW, ip dhcp snooping is enabled on vlan 999 which Linux-Lubuntu and Linux-Kali belong.

Problem

After ip dhcp snooping is enabled on SW, Linux-Lubuntu and Linux-Kali could not get ip address from dhcp.

Cause

ip dhcp snooping information option is enabled globally on SW by default, this means SW by default acts as a dhcp relay agent by inserting option 82. However the SW does not seem to set the giaddr to non-zero and hence dhcp drops the request.

Solution

  1. Disable ip dhcp snooping information option in SW in global configuration.
  2. Enable ip dhcp relay information trusted on interface e0/0 of dhcp.
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