[c-nsp] DHCP Relay breaks after some time on Cat 3750X

[Markus Hauschild]

Hi,

I have a weird problem with DHCP relay on a Cat 3750X:


Configuration is as follows (full config w/o passwords in attachment):

Two "ip helper-address <ip>" statements (one for each server) are set
on each vlan interface where I want to have DHCP relay.


After I boot the switch DHCPDISCOVER broadcasts from clients are
properly forwarded to both DHCP servers (example output taken from the
first one):

Aug 26 17:49:57 aveta dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 60:57:18:x:y:z via 172.23.4.254
Aug 26 17:49:58 aveta dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 172.23.4.240 to
60:57:18:x:y:z ($hostname) via 172.23.4.254
Aug 26 17:49:58 aveta dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.23.4.240 (172.23.2.1)
from 60:57:18:x:y:z ($hostname) via 172.23.4.254
Aug 26 17:49:58 aveta dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.23.4.240 to 60:57:18:x:y:z
($hostname) via 172.23.4.254

Yet after a while DHCPDISCOVER broadcasts are no longer forwarded to
any DHCP server, only unicast (e.g. DHCPREQUEST) still works.

I had a similar config running for months (obviously a few times
port/vlan assignments changed, I migrated from OSPF+OSPFv3 to OSPFv3
only ...) until I had this problem occur for the first time.

The current situation is that DHCP relay works for a certain period of
time (hours to days) after a cold boot until all DHCP broadcasts are
silently discarded again.

I do see the broadcasts on wireshark in the same VLAN, I don't see any
DHCPDISCOVER on the server with tcpdump.


I tried debug ip dhcp server packet but couldn't find anything
helpful. Any ideas what to further debug/look into? Anything wrong
with the config? Possible Hardware problem?


Greetings,
Markus