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V-256030CAT II — Medium severitySV-256030r882432_rule

The Arista router must be configured to have gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

Rule version ARST-RT-000510 · STIG v2 · 2025-02-20

Discussion

A gratuitous ARP is an ARP broadcast in which the source and destination MAC addresses are the same. It is used to inform the network about a host IP address. A spoofed gratuitous ARP message can cause network mapping information to be stored incorrectly, causing network malfunction.

Check

Review the configuration to determine if gratuitous ARP is disabled on all external interfaces.

By default, Arista router interfaces reject gratuitous ARP request packets. To verify the gratuitous ARP is disabled, execute the command "sh run int ethernet YY".

These commands enable/disable gratuitous ARP packet acceptance on.

Enable

interface Ethernet 2 arp gratuitous accept

Disable

interface Ethernet 2 no arp gratuitous accept

If gratuitous ARP is enabled on any external interface, this is a finding.

Fix

Disable gratuitous ARP on all external interfaces.

Disable

interface Ethernet 2 no arp gratuitous accept

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256030
Group title
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000111
Rule ID
SV-256030r882432_rule
Check ID
C-59706r882430_chk
Fix ID
F-59649r882431_fix