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V-273638

CAT II (Medium)

The RUCKUS ICX multicast Rendezvous Pointerface (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.

Rule ID

SV-273638r1110941_rule

STIG

RUCKUS ICX Router Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-002385

Discussion

When a new source starts transmitting in a PIM Sparse Mode network, the DR will encapsulate the multicast packets into register messages and forward them to the RP using unicast. This process can be taxing on the CPU for both the DR and the RP if the source is running at a high data rate and there are many new sources starting at the same time. This scenario can potentially occur immediately after a network failover. The rate limit for the number of register messages must be set to a relatively low value based on the known number of multicast sources within the multicast domain.

Check Content

Review the configuration of the RP to verify that it is rate limiting the number of PIM register messages.

router pim
  rp-address x.0.1.1
  register-rate-limit nn

If the RP is not limiting PIM register messages, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the RP to rate limit the number of multicast register messages.

ICX(config)# router pim
ICX(config-pim-router)#rp-address x.0.1.1
ICX(config-pim-router)#register-rate-limit nn