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V-215428

CAT II (Medium)

AIX must not run any routing protocol daemons unless the system is a router.

Rule ID

SV-215428r1268251_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R4

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

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.

Check Content

Check for any running routing protocol daemons by running:
# ps -ef | egrep '(ospf|route|bgp|zebra|quagga|gate)' 

If any routing protocol daemons are listed, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Kill any routing protocol daemons by running the following command:
# ps -ef |egrep '(ospf|route|bgp|zebra|quagga|gate)' | grep -v egrep | awk -F " " '{print $2}' | while read pid;do kill $pid;done