Question

Students at a residence hall are reporting internet connectivity issues. The university’s network administrator configured the residence hall’s network to provide public IP addresses to all connected devices, but many student devices are receiving private IP addresses due to rogue devices. The network administrator verifies the residence hall’s network is correctly configured and contacts the security administrator for help. Which of the following configurations should the security administrator suggest for implementation?
a. Router ACLs
b.BPDU guard
c. Flood guard
d.DHCP snooping

Answer 1

Answer: D) DHCP snooping

Explanation:

 DHCP stand for the dynamic host configuration protocol and it is basically use as the DHCP server. It provide the IP address to each device in the network and it is used to communicate with the other IP network.

According to the question, the student device basically receive the IP network and it is an unauthorized DHCP server which uses denial of service attack for several purposes.

DHCP snooping is basically use to prevent from such unauthorized device which gives the IP address to the clients. DHCP is the two layer security system technology that is bulit in the operating system.