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V-220144

CAT III (Low)

The router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.

Rule ID

SV-220144r604135_rule

STIG

Router Security Requirements Guide

Version

V5R2

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being used by hosts instead of the standardized default value. If a very small value was configured and advertised to hosts on the LAN segment, communications would fail due to the hop limit reaching zero before the packets sent by a host reached its destination.

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This requirement is not applicable for the DODIN Backbone. 

Review the router configuration to determine if the hop limit has been configured for Router Advertisement messages. 

If it has been configured and has not been set to at least 32, it is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the router to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages.