The Photon operating system must not perform multicast packet forwarding.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this software is used when not required, system network information may be unnecessarily transmitted across the network.
- ID
- SV-256574r991589_rule
- Version
- PHTN-30-000105
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
At the command line, run the following command:
# for SETTING in $(/sbin/sysctl -aN --pattern "net.ipv[4|6].conf.(all|default|eth.*).mc_forwarding"); do sed -i -e "/^${SETTING}/d" /etc/sysctl.conf;echo $SETTING=0>>/etc/sysctl.conf; done
# /sbin/sysctl --load