» DHCP Relay on the Nexus7000/NXOS Vs. IP Helper on the 6500/IoS Router Switch Blog

IP helper (now DHCP relay) works differently on the Nexus 7000 than on the Cisco 6500. The N7K imposes a VACL to filter local DHCP broadcast traffic, under the assumption that you’d be using DHCP relay when there is no local DHCP server. So if you are ...

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