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The Juniper BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Outbound route advertisements belonging to the core can result in traffic either looping or being black holed, or at a minimum, using a nonoptimized path.

ID
SV-254015r844078_rule
Version
JUEX-RT-000430
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure all eBGP routers to filter outbound route advertisements belonging to the IP core.

For example:
set policy-options prefix-list ip-core-ipv4 192.0.2.0/24
set policy-options prefix-list ip-core-ipv6 2001:db8:2::/64
set policy-options policy-statement advertise-bgp-prefix term exclude-ipv4-core from prefix-list ip-core-ipv4