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Proxy Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) must not be enabled on the system.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
GEN007760-ESXI5-PNF GEN007760-ESXI5-PNF GEN007760-ESXI5-PNF_rule Medium
Description
Proxy Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) allows a system to respond to NDP requests on one interface on behalf of hosts connected to another interface. If this function is enabled when not required, addressing information may be leaked between the attached network segments. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function.
STIG Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN007760-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.
Fix Text (F-GEN007760-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.