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V-273665CAT III — Low severitySV-273665r1110904_rule

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 version RCKS-RTR-001020 · STIG v1 · 2025-06-03

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.

Check

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

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)

Identifiers

Group ID
V-273665
Group title
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000012
Rule ID
SV-273665r1110904_rule
Check ID
C-77756r1110015_chk
Fix ID
F-77661r1110777_fix