I have 5 C9300L-48T-4X-M switches. I currently have them daisy-chained together (stacking cables havent arrived yet).   We are pre-staging these switches in a shop environment before shipping to the customer.   The switches register with the dashboard fine, as they receive a management IP from the shop VLAN via DHCP. I set up the core switch as a DHCP server for 2 VLANs, and configured the downstream switches with the corresponding port VLAN configurations etc.   The problem is, clients in either of these VLANs keep getting link local IP addresses, or addresses from the shop DHCP server, which i want to prevent.   Why isnt DHCP working? This is all so very simple to setup on a regular cisco switch. ... View more