DHCP snooping
In computer networking, DHCP snooping is a series of techniques applied to improve the security of a DHCP infrastructure.[1]
DHCP servers allocate IP addresses to clients on a LAN. DHCP snooping can be configured on LAN switches to exclude rogue DHCP servers and remove malicious or malformed DHCP traffic. In addition, information on hosts which have successfully completed a DHCP transaction is accrued in a database of bindings which may then be used by other security or accounting features.[2][3]
Other features may use DHCP snooping database information to ensure IP integrity on a Layer 2 switched domain. This information enables a network to:
- Track the physical location of IP addresses when combined with AAA accounting or SNMP.
- Ensure that hosts only use the IP addresses assigned to them when combined with source-guard a.k.a. source-lockdown[4]
- Sanitize ARP requests when combined with arp-inspection a.k.a. arp-protect
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