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Cisco IOS Switch RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.

    <VulnDiscussion>The Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) switching mode replaces the traditional Cisco routing cache with a data structure that mir...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000012

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco switch must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Switch Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000013

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not co...
    Rule Medium Severity

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