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V-273665

CAT III (Low)

The RUCKUS ICX Router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration deployments.

Rule ID

SV-273665r1110904_rule

STIG

RUCKUS ICX Router Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

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 (default value = 64). 

Ipv6 hop-limit xx

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:

ICX(config)#ipv6 hop-limit xx 
(Decimal between 32 and 255)