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The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE routers with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Verifying the path a route has traversed will ensure that the local AS is not used as a transit network for unauthorized traffic. To ensure that the local AS does not carry any prefixes that do not belong to any customers, all PE routers must be configured to reject routes with an originating AS other than that belonging to the customer.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-216783r945855_rule
Severity
Low
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

This requirement is not applicable for the DODIN Backbone.

Configure the router to reject updates from CE routers with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.

Step 1: Configure an inbound route policy for each customer to only accept routes with an originating AS that belongs to that customer as shown in the example below.