The NSX Tier-0 Gateway router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being used by hosts instead of the standardized default value. If a very small value was configured and advertised to hosts on the LAN segment, communications would fail due to the hop limit reaching zero before the packets sent by a host reached its destination.
- ID
- SV-265479r994787_rule
- Version
- NT0R-4X-000102
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
To configure the Neighbor Discovery hop limit, do the following:
From the NSX Manager web interface, go to Networking >> Connectivity >> Tier-0 Gateways >> edit the target Tier-0 gateway.
Expand Additional Settings and select an "ND Profile" from the drop down with a hop limit of 32 or more, then click "Close Editing".
Note: The default ND profile has a hop limit of 64 and cannot be edited. If required, create a new or edit another existing ND profile to use.