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V-216131CAT III — Low severitySV-216131r959010_rule

The system must disable directed broadcast packet forwarding.

Rule version SOL-11.1-050010 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

This parameter must be disabled to reduce the risk of denial of service attacks.

Check

Determine if directed broadcast packet forwarding is disabled.

# ipadm show-prop -p _forward_directed_broadcasts -co current ip

If the output of this command is not "0", this is a finding.

Fix

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable directed broadcast packet forwarding.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _forward_directed_broadcasts=0 ip

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216131
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216131r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17369r372775_chk
Fix ID
F-17367r372776_fix