Dell PowerConnect 6248 User's Guide - Page 454

Table 7-68. DHCP Snooping Persistent Database Commands CLI Command ip dhcp snooping database ip dhcp snooping database write-delay show ip dhcp snooping database Description Configures the persistent location of the DHCP snooping database. Configures the interval in seconds at which the DHCP Snooping database will be stored in persistent storage. Displays the DHCP snooping configuration related to the database persistence. DHCP Snooping Static Bindings Configuration Use the DHCP Snooping Static Bindings Configuration page to add static DHCP bindings to the binding database. The DHCP snooping application uses DHCP messages to build and maintain the binding's database. The binding's database only includes data for clients on untrusted ports. DHCP snooping creates a tentative binding from DHCP DISCOVER and REQUEST messages. Tentative bindings tie a client to a port (the port where the DHCP client message was received). Tentative bindings are completed when DHCP snooping learns the client's IP address from a DHCP ACK message on a trusted port. DHCP snooping removes bindings in response to DECLINE, RELEASE, and NACK messages. The DHCP snooping application ignores the ACK messages as a reply to the DHCP Inform messages received on trusted ports. You can also enter static bindings into the binding database. The DHCP binding database is persisted on a configured external server or locally in flash, depending on the user configuration. A row-wise checksum is placed in the text file that is going to be stored in the remote configured server. On reloading, the switch reads the configured binding file to build the DHCP snooping database. When the switch starts and the calculated checksum value equals the stored checksum, the switch reads entries from the binding file and populates the binding database. A checksum failure or a connection problem to the external configured server will cause the switch to loose the bindings and will cause a host's data loss if DAI is enabled. When a switch learns of new bindings or when it loses bindings, the switch immediately updates the entries in the database. The switch also updates the entries in the binding file. The frequency at which the file is updated is based on a configurable delay, and the updates are batched. If the absolute lease time of the snooping database entry expires, then that entry will be removed. You should take care of the system time to be consistent across the reboots. Otherwise, the snooping entries will not expire properly. If a host sends a DHCP release while the switch is rebooting then, when the switch receives the DHCP discovery or request, the client's binding will go to the tentative binding as shown in the following figure. 454 Configuring Switching Information