DHCP Snooping is a security technology on a Layer 2 network switch that can prevent unauthorized DHCP servers from accessing your network. It is a protection from the untrusted hosts that want to become DHCP servers. DHCP Snooping works as a protection from man-in-the-middle attacks. DHCP itself operates on Layer 3 of the OSI layer while DHCP snooping operates on Layer 2 devices to filter the traffic that is coming from DHCP clients.