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DHCP Issue

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We have 2 VLANS that terminate on a PA-3020 firewall.  One VLAN (100) uses DHCP relay and works without any issues. 
 
The DHCP relay exists on the firewall for VLAN 100, but this relays to an internal DHCP server on our network.
 
The other VLAN (200) uses the PA-3020 as a DHCP server, but this is not working. The DHCP server for VLAN 200 is hosted on the firewall itself.
 
In the packet captures of the DHCP discover & DHCP offer packet for vlan 200, we see the BOOTP FLAG which is set to broadcast.
 
In the DHCP offer packet for VLAN 100, the BOOTP flag is set to unicast in this one.
 
How can we fix this issue?
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Hello

 

What version of code are you running on the 3020?

 

I just did a packet capture of my VM firewall and it does perform a unicast as you confirmed.

So, if your FW is sending the dhcp as a broadcast, something in the underlying code may be causing this.

Hence the reason to ask about the software version.

 

thanks

 

 

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Hi @SCantwell_IM 

 

Using 8.1.9.

 

 

@FarzanaMustafa looking thru the RFC the Broadcast bit is set by the client and only when the client is not able to receive IP unicast messages before its IP stack is fully configured. Per the RFC if the flag is set to "1" then then the server SHOULD send as an IP broadcast, if the flag is set to "0" then the server SHOULD send as an IP unicast, the latter being pretty typical these days with modern IP stacks. In either case the DHCP server SHOULD honor the client request.

 

Can you clarify what you are seeing and if you are seeing this at the client or server or FW?

Thanks @ddelcourt  & @SCantwell_IM 

 

We had a remote session with PA TAC team and they found below.

 

>In the PA captures, we could see DHCP discover being received and DHCP offer being sent out.
>However on the client, DHCP discover was not reaching.
>As confirmation the packet sent from PA, we did a port mirror on the switch and we could see DHCP discover was reaching there.

Customer will now explore more on switch side.

When they say client, do they mean the workstation trying to get the IP address? That machine shouldn't receive a discover since it's the one broadcasting. The discover goes to the server, which responds with an offer. 

Is the offer being received by the client?

 

Yes client=workstation in this case.

 

Anyway, customer has abandoned the DHCP server config on the Palo Alto. 

They are now using the firewall to DHCP relay to an internal DHCP server.

 

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