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January 31st, 2018 07:00
Force10 MXL 10/40 dhcp snooping issue
Hello, community, I'm trying to implement "DHCP Snooping" on Dell Force10 MXL switches, but looks like those switches behave differently if we compare to other vendors. Can somebody point to correct CLI command, if I missed something?
What we have:
Dell Force10 MXL 10/40 - software version 9.9
ip dhcp snooping ip dhcp snooping vlan 1-4094 ip dhcp snooping trust ( on the interface level for required ports )
I also tried to add, but it didn't change anything
ip dhcp relay information-option trust-downstream
In the logs I'm seeing following repeated messages:
DHCP message from server((null)) has no giaddr present - repeated 3 times
No Events found!


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January 31st, 2018 11:00
This configuration from switch with server connected to it and at this moment we're trying to implement snooping in single vlan. Port with server was configured as trust and after that this message appeared in the log and non of the clients are getting ip from this server.
I believe there should be option to allow empty giaddr field like it exist on Cisco gears
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January 31st, 2018 12:00
Here is current config, dhcp snooping disabled globally since chassis is in production at this moment
Ports number 44 are uplinks, 9 and 4 are dhcp servers half-size blades.
I tried both options with and without "information-option trust-downstream", but nothing changed
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February 1st, 2018 06:00
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February 2nd, 2018 00:00
Hello, Daniel, thanks for your help
Sorry for confusing situation, let me clarify everything one more time in order to give you more wide understanding about existing issue. You're not seeing list of VLANs because there were 4094, one in a row, that's why I didn't post them.
We have tested 2 different cases for dhcp snooping feature in chassis switch, I'll provide explanation below:
1. MXL 10/40 connected to Cisco ToR switch, DHCP client connected to MXL switch and DHCP server connected to ToR switch. In this configuration everything was fine, MXL determined DHCP client host, added entry to snooping table and etc. Everything in the same VLAN
2. DHCP server and client connected to MXL switch, same configuration, server's port configured as trusted, but DHCP client never receives IP from the server
We tried different DHCP servers, dnsmasq and isc-dhcpd
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February 7th, 2018 01:00
Found post similar to mine. Just adding here for history
https://www.dell.com/community/Networking/DHCP-snooping-between-multiple-switches-and-how-to-make/m-p/5173077