Relay-Advanced

This suite tests advanced DHCP relay deployment scenarios. These include configurations with multiple servers for redundancy and relays serving multiple client networks simultaneously. These scenarios are common in enterprise and service provider networks where high availability and network segmentation are required.

Test Relay With Multiple Upstream Servers

Description

This test configures a relay with multiple DHCP servers for redundancy. The relay forwards DHCP requests to all configured server addresses. If one server is unavailable or slow, the client can receive a response from another server. This is useful when DHCP server failover is not available or when load balancing across multiple servers is desired. The client should obtain an IP from one of the configured servers.

Scenario

Step 1: Set the following configuration in DUT0 :

set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 100 address 10.0.0.2/24
set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 200 address 20.0.0.2/24
set service dhcp-relay INS downstream-interface eth1.200
set service dhcp-relay INS server 10.0.0.1
set service dhcp-relay INS server 10.0.0.3
set service dhcp-relay INS upstream-interface eth0.100
set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'

Step 2: Set the following configuration in DUT1 :

set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 100 address 10.0.0.1/24
set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 100 address 10.0.0.3/24
set protocols static route 0.0.0.0/0 next-hop 10.0.0.2
set service dhcp-server shared-network dummy subnet 10.0.0.1/32
set service dhcp-server shared-network remote subnet 20.0.0.0/24 start 20.0.0.50 stop 20.0.0.50
set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'

Step 3: Set the following configuration in DUT2 :

set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 200 address dhcp
set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'

Step 4: Ping IP address 10.0.0.1 from DUT0:

admin@DUT0$ ping 10.0.0.1 count 1 size 56 timeout 1
Show output
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.392 ms

--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.392/0.392/0.392/0.000 ms

Step 5: Run command interfaces ethernet show at DUT2 and check if output contains the following tokens:

20.0.0.50
Show output
---------------------------------------------------------------------
  Name             IP Address           Admin  Oper  Vrf  Description
---------------------------------------------------------------------
    eth0  fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64  up     up
eth0.200  20.0.0.50/24                  up     up
          fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64
    eth1                                down   down
    eth2                                down   down
    eth3                                down   down

Test Relay With Multiple Downstream Interfaces

Description

This test configures a single relay instance to serve multiple downstream networks. This is common in distribution layer switches where one device provides DHCP relay for multiple VLANs. Each downstream interface forwards requests to the same upstream server, but the server assigns IPs from the appropriate subnet based on the giaddr (relay IP) in each network.

Scenario

Step 1: Set the following configuration in DUT0 :

set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 100 address 10.0.0.2/24
set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 200 address 20.0.0.2/24
set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 300 address 30.0.0.2/24
set service dhcp-relay INS downstream-interface eth1.200
set service dhcp-relay INS downstream-interface eth1.300
set service dhcp-relay INS server 10.0.0.1
set service dhcp-relay INS upstream-interface eth0.100
set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'

Step 2: Set the following configuration in DUT1 :

set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 100 address 10.0.0.1/24
set protocols static route 0.0.0.0/0 next-hop 10.0.0.2
set service dhcp-server shared-network dummy subnet 10.0.0.1/32
set service dhcp-server shared-network remote subnet 20.0.0.0/24 start 20.0.0.50 stop 20.0.0.50
set service dhcp-server shared-network remote2 subnet 30.0.0.0/24 start 30.0.0.50 stop 30.0.0.50
set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'

Step 3: Set the following configuration in DUT2 :

set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 200 address dhcp
set interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 300 address dhcp
set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'

Step 4: Ping IP address 10.0.0.1 from DUT0:

admin@DUT0$ ping 10.0.0.1 count 1 size 56 timeout 1
Show output
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.303 ms

--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.303/0.303/0.303/0.000 ms

Step 5: Run command interfaces ethernet show at DUT2 and check if output contains the following tokens:

20.0.0.50
Show output
---------------------------------------------------------------------
  Name             IP Address           Admin  Oper  Vrf  Description
---------------------------------------------------------------------
    eth0  fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64  up     up
eth0.200  20.0.0.50/24                  up     up
          fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64
eth0.300  30.0.0.50/24                  up     up
          fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64
    eth1                                down   down
    eth2                                down   down
    eth3                                down   down

Step 6: Run command interfaces ethernet show at DUT2 and check if output contains the following tokens:

30.0.0.50
Show output
---------------------------------------------------------------------
  Name             IP Address           Admin  Oper  Vrf  Description
---------------------------------------------------------------------
    eth0  fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64  up     up
eth0.200  20.0.0.50/24                  up     up
          fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64
eth0.300  30.0.0.50/24                  up     up
          fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c20/64
    eth1                                down   down
    eth2                                down   down
    eth3                                down   down