The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address when originating MSDP traffic.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of MSDP routers. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress filters for router management plane traffic destined to the network management subnet since the source addresses will be from the range used for loopback interfaces instead of a larger range of addresses used for physical interfaces. Log information recorded by authentication and syslog servers will record the router’s loopback address instead of the numerous physical interface addresses.
- ID
- SV-254070r844243_rule
- Version
- JUEX-RT-000980
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Ensure that the router’s loopback address is used as the source address when originating traffic.
set protocols msdp active-source-limit maximum <1..1000000>
set protocols msdp active-source-limit threshold <1..1000000>
set protocols msdp active-source-limit log-warning <percent to log warning>
set protocols msdp local-address <lo0 address>