Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Configuration Manual page 388

Understanding DHCP Features
Figure 19-1
(DHCP client)
When you enable the DHCP snooping information option 82 on the switch, this sequence of events
occurs:
The host (DHCP client) generates a DHCP request and broadcasts it on the network.
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When the switch receives the DHCP request, it adds the option-82 information in the packet. The
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option-82 information contains the switch MAC address (the remote ID suboption) and the port
identifier, vlan-mod-port, from which the packet is received (the circuit ID suboption).
If the IP address of the relay agent is configured, the switch adds the IP address in the DHCP packet.
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The switch forwards the DHCP request that includes the option-82 field to the DHCP server.
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The DHCP server receives the packet. If the server is option-82 capable, it can use the remote ID,
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the circuit ID, or both to assign IP addresses and implement policies, such as restricting the number
of IP addresses that can be assigned to a single remote ID or circuit ID. Then the DHCP server
echoes the option-82 field in the DHCP reply.
The DHCP server unicasts the reply to the switch if the request was relayed to the server by the
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switch. When the client and server are on the same subnet, the server broadcasts the reply. The
switch verifies that it originally inserted the option-82 data by inspecting the remote ID and possibly
the circuit ID fields. The switch removes the option-82 field and forwards the packet to the switch
port that connects to the DHCP client that sent the DHCP request.
When the previously described sequence of events occurs, the values in these fields in
change:
• Circuit ID suboption fields
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Remote ID suboption fields
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Catalyst 2950 and Catalyst 2955 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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DHCP Relay Agent in a Metropolitan Ethernet Network
Catalyst switch
(DHCP relay agent)
Subscribers
Host A
Suboption type
Length of the suboption type
Circuit ID type
Length of the circuit ID type
Suboption type
Length of the suboption type
DHCP
server
Access layer
VLAN 10
Host B
(DHCP client)
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