STIGUI
V-216141CAT II — Medium severitySV-216141r959010_rule

The system must set maximum number of half-open TCP connections to 4096.

Rule version SOL-11.1-050110 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

This setting controls how many half-open connections can exist for a TCP port.

It is necessary to control the number of completed connections to the system to provide some protection against denial of service attacks.

Check

Determine if the number of half open TCP connections is set to 4096.

# ipadm show-prop -p _conn_req_max_q0 -co current tcp

If the value of "4096" is not returned, this is a finding.

Fix

The Network Management profile is required

Configure maximum TCP connections for IPv4 and IPv6.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _conn_req_max_q0=4096 tcp

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216141
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216141r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17379r372805_chk
Fix ID
F-17377r372806_fix