[c-nsp] ip arp inspection

Mike mike-cisconsplist at tiedyenetworks.com
Sun Mar 2 20:01:44 EST 2014


Hi,

     I have ip dhcp snooping and ip arp inspection enabled:


ip arp inspection vlan 311-314
ip arp inspection validate src-mac dst-mac ip
ip dhcp snooping vlan 311-314
ip dhcp snooping

     This appears to enforce that, if you are on one of those vlans and 
you don't have a dhcp assigned IP, you can't talk.

     I am noticing however that if I do a ping scan of the subnets on 
those vlans, even tho the switch should know what IP's are assigned via 
is dhcp snooping database, it allows the arp's thru anyway for ip 
addresses not in it's database. This seems a bit silly, why not save the 
bandwidth and just drop outgoing arp on ports where the dhcp snooping db 
doesn't have an entry for it?

     Is there a cisco feature that would do this or am I being silly here?

Mike-



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