Information About IP Source Guard
IP Source Guard is a per-interface traffic filter that permits IP traffic only when the IP address and MAC address of each packet matches one of two sources of IP and MAC address bindings:
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Entries in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping binding table.
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Static IP source entries that you configure.
Filtering on trusted IP and MAC address bindings helps prevent spoofing attacks, in which an attacker uses the IP address of a valid host to gain unauthorized network access. To circumvent IP Source Guard, an attacker would have to spoof both the IP address and the MAC address of a valid host.
You can enable IP Source Guard on Layer 2 interfaces that are not trusted by DHCP snooping. IP Source Guard supports interfaces that are configured to operate in access mode and trunk mode. When you initially enable IP Source Guard, all inbound IP traffic on the interface is blocked except for the following:
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DHCP packets, which DHCP snooping inspects and then forwards or drops, depending upon the results of inspecting the packet.
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IP traffic from static IP source entries that you have configured in the Cisco NX-OS device.
The device permits the IP traffic when DHCP snooping adds a binding table entry for the IP address and MAC address of an IP packet or when you have configured a static IP source entry.
The device drops IP packets when the IP address and MAC address of the packet do not have a binding table entry or a static IP source entry. For example, assume that the show ip dhcp snooping binding command displays the following binding table entry:
MacAddress IpAddress LeaseSec Type VLAN Interface
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00:02:B3:3F:3B:99 10.5.5.2 6943 dhcp-snooping 10 Ethernet2/3
If the device receives an IP packet with an IP address of 10.5.5.2, IP Source Guard forwards the packet only if the MAC address of the packet is 00:02:B3:3F:3B:99.