CISC-RT-000530 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.

Information

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

Solution

Step 1: Configure a prefix list for containing all customer and local AS prefixes as shown in the example below:

SW1(config)# ip prefix-list FILTER_CORE_PREFIXES deny x.1.1.0/24 le 32
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list FILTER _CORE_PREFIXES deny x.1.2.0/24 le 32
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list FILTER _CORE_PREFIXES permit 0.0.0.0/0 ge 8

Step 2: Apply the prefix list filter outbound to each CE neighbor as shown in the example below:

SW1(config)# router bgp xx
SW1(config-router)# neighbor x.1.12.2
SW1(config-router-neighbor)# address-family ipv4 unicast
SW1(config-router-neighbor-af)# prefix-list FILTER _CORE_PREFIXES out
SW1(config-router-neighbor-af)# exit
SW1(config-router-neighbor)# exit
SW1(config-router)# neighbor x.2.44.4
SW1(config-router-neighbor)# address-family ipv4 unicast
SW1(config-router-neighbor-af)# prefix-list FILTER _CORE_PREFIXES out
SW1(config-router-neighbor-af)# end

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Cisco_NX-OS_Switch_Y24M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001097, Rule-ID|SV-221107r999716_rule, STIG-ID|CISC-RT-000530, STIG-Legacy|SV-111033, STIG-Legacy|V-101929, Vuln-ID|V-221107

Plugin: Cisco

Control ID: 7ea28bb6dc0f6bc421c517cebf598cae47eb72cc37d53c00b854ea27efe4f0cd