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The administrator must ensure that the maximum hop limit is at least 32.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-30617 NET-IPV6-059 SV-40389r1_rule Low
Description
The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message to be 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 hop limit reaching zero before the packets sent by a host reached its destination.
STIG Date
Infrastructure Router - Cisco Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-09-28

Details

Check Text ( C-39253r1_chk )
The maximum number of hops used in router advertisements and all IPv6 packets that are originated by the router can be set using the ipv6 hop-limit command in global configuration mode. Review the router or multi-layer switch configuration to determine if the maximum hop limit has been configured. If it has been configured, then it must be set to at least 32.

The following global command sets the max hop limit to 128: ipv6 hop-limit 128

Note: The IOS default is 64. Hence, if the hop limit is not configured, the router will be in compliance with the requirement.
Fix Text (F-34363r2_fix)
Configure maximum hop limit to at least 32.