CISC-RT-000235 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled - ipv6

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Information

The Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) switching mode replaces the traditional Cisco routing cache with a data structure that mirrors the entire system routing table. Because there is no need to build cache entries when traffic starts arriving for new destinations, CEF behaves more predictably when presented with large volumes of traffic addressed to many destinations such as a SYN flood attacks that. Because many SYN flood attacks use randomized source addresses to which the hosts under attack will reply to, there can be a substantial amount of traffic for a large number of destinations that the switch will have to handle. Consequently, switches configured for CEF will perform better under SYN floods directed at hosts inside the network than switches using the traditional cache.

Solution

Enable CEF

IPv4 Example: ip cef
IPv6 Example: ipv6 cef

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Cisco_IOS_Switch_Y22M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-237749r648775_rule, STIG-ID|CISC-RT-000235, Vuln-ID|V-237749

Plugin: Cisco

Control ID: 122c99ae7a5dd7c2ca7b40769350b7d9e746eb767cecc70a55fa9430abafa099