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The Juniper BGP router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The effects of prefix de-aggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a misconfigured router, prefix de-aggregation occurs when the announcement of a large prefix is fragmented into a collection of smaller prefix announcements.

ID
SV-217061r855901_rule
Version
JUNI-RT-000550
Severity
Low
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the router to limit the prefix size on any route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.

Configure a route filter to reject any prefix that is longer than /24.

[edit policy-options]
set policy-statement NO_LONG_PREFIXES from route-filter 0.0.0.0/0 prefix-length-range /25-/32 reject