From ab2bdb560cec8eeb62123bdd472bf9d9e36ef6a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ravi vemuri Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:24:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update the DHCP Snooping Scalability section --- L2/DHCP_Snooping/DHCP_Snooping_HLD.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/L2/DHCP_Snooping/DHCP_Snooping_HLD.md b/L2/DHCP_Snooping/DHCP_Snooping_HLD.md index 323a707fca94..f00a064b2a95 100755 --- a/L2/DHCP_Snooping/DHCP_Snooping_HLD.md +++ b/L2/DHCP_Snooping/DHCP_Snooping_HLD.md @@ -880,7 +880,10 @@ The DHCP Snooping binding DB is updated to the APP_DB. Post a warm boot, this ta Go back to [Beginning of the document](#dhcp-snooping). # 7 Scalability -A total of 8K clients are supported (4K for DHCPv4 and 4K for DHCPv6). For each pool by IP version type, DHCP Snooping feature allows 1K static entries and 3K dynamic entries. Beyond the limit, the DHCP Snooping DB is not updated and the DHCP packets are dropped. +1. A total of 8K clients are supported (4K for DHCPv4 and 4K for DHCPv6). For each pool by IP version type, DHCP Snooping feature allows 1K static entries and 3K dynamic entries. Beyond the limit, the DHCP Snooping DB is not updated and the DHCP packets are dropped. + +2. DHCP snooping can handle 100 pps on Campus builds. On Enterprise builds, it can handle 300 pps. This limit is per version type (DHCPv4 & DHCPv6). These include all DHCP packet types (DISCOVER, OFFER, etc. in case of DHCPv4 for example) received in a second. +The number of clients that can successfully complete the exchange per second will be less than the limit as client and server exchange multiple DHCP packets. Go back to [Beginning of the document](#dhcp-snooping).