About DHCPv6 snooping

It guarantees that DHCPv6 clients obtain IPv6 addresses or prefixes from authorized DHCPv6 servers. Also, it records IP-to-MAC bindings of DHCPv6 clients (called DHCPv6 snooping address entries) and prefix-to-port bindings of DHCPv6 clients (called DHCPv6 snooping prefix entries) for security purposes.

DHCPv6 snooping defines trusted and untrusted ports to make sure that clients obtain IPv6 addresses only from authorized DHCPv6 servers.

DHCPv6 snooping reads DHCP-ACK messages received from trusted ports and DHCP-REQUEST messages to create DHCPv6 snooping entries. A DHCPv6 snooping entry can be an address entry or a prefix entry.