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Nokia Service Router OS 25.x Router Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version: 1

Release: 1 Benchmark Date: 28 Apr 2026

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SV-283821r1204035_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-283822r1204021_ruleThe multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) register messages.
SV-283823r1203718_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DOD Instruction (DODI) 8551.1.
SV-283824r1203721_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router providing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) must be configured to have the appropriate virtual circuit identification (VC ID) for each attachment circuit.
SV-283825r1203724_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to limit the number of MAC addresses it can learn for each virtual private local access network service (VPLS) bridge domain.
SV-283826r1203727_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router providing virtual private local area network services (VPLS) must be configured to have all attachment circuits defined to the virtual forwarding instance (VFI) with the globally unique VPN ID assigned for each customer VLAN.
SV-283827r1203730_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.
SV-283828r1203733_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE routers with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.
SV-283829r1203736_ruleThe Nokia out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway must be configured to transport management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC) via dedicated circuit, Multiprotocol Label Switching/Virtual Private Network (MPLS/VPN) service, or IPsec tunnel.
SV-283830r1203739_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.
SV-283831r1203742_ruleThe Nokia Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address when originating MSDP traffic.
SV-283832r1203745_ruleThe Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) peering sessions.
SV-283833r1203748_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
SV-283834r1203751_ruleThe Nokia Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on a per-peer basis.
SV-283835r1203754_ruleThe Nokia Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter source-active multicast advertisements to external MSDP peers to avoid global visibility of local-only multicast sources and groups.
SV-283836r1203757_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets that contain a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.
SV-283837r1203760_ruleThe perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop header with invalid option type values.
SV-283838r1203763_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to power off Bluetooth and disable the auxiliary port unless it is connected to a secured modem providing encryption and authentication.
SV-283839r1203766_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all Customer Edge (CE)-facing interfaces.
SV-283840r1203769_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type of 0, 1, or 3-255.
SV-283841r1203772_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
SV-283842r1203775_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.
SV-283843r1203778_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance bound to the appropriate physical or logical interfaces to maintain traffic separation between all Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) layer 3 virtual private networks (L3VPNs).
SV-283844r1203781_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance with the appropriate Route Target (RT).
SV-283845r1203784_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop or Destination Option extension header with an undefined option type.
SV-283846r1203787_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.
SV-283847r1203790_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the network service access point (NSAP) address option within the Destination Option header.
SV-283848r1203793_ruleThe Nokia out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to forward only authorized management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC).
SV-283849r1203796_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
SV-283850r1203799_ruleThe Nokia Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.
SV-283851r1203802_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-283852r1203805_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask replies disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-283853r1203808_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable notifications disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-283854r1203811_ruleThe Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) router must be configured to have time-to-live (TTL) propagation disabled.
SV-283855r1203814_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.
SV-283856r1203817_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix deaggregation attacks.
SV-283857r1203820_ruleThe Nokia multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to limit the number of mroute states resulting from Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Host Membership Reports.
SV-283858r1203823_ruleThe Nokia multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to increase the shortest-path tree (SPT) threshold or set it to infinity to minimize source-group (S, G) state within the multicast topology where Any Source Multicast (ASM) is deployed.
SV-283859r1203826_ruleThe Nokia router must implement physically or logically separate subnetworks to isolate organization-defined critical system components and functions.
SV-283860r1203829_ruleThe Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) router with Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) enabled must be configured with message pacing or refresh reduction to adjust the maximum number of RSVP messages to an output queue based on the link speed and input queue size of adjacent core routers.
SV-283861r1203832_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to have Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Learn Unsolicited disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-283862r1203835_ruleThe Nokia multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join only multicast groups that have been approved by the organization.
SV-283863r1203838_ruleThe Nokia multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.
SV-283864r1203841_ruleThe Nokia multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups.
SV-283865r1203844_ruleThe Nokia multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.
SV-283866r1203847_ruleThe Nokia multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.
SV-283867r1203850_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options.
SV-283868r1203853_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
SV-283869r1203856_ruleThe Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) router must be configured to synchronize Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange.
SV-283870r1203859_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.
SV-283871r1203862_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.
SV-283872r1204036_ruleThe Nokia router must not be configured to have the auto-boot feature enabled when connected to an operational network.
SV-283873r1203868_ruleThe Nokia Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.
SV-283874r1203871_ruleThe Nokia Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to authenticate all received MSDP packets.
SV-283875r1203874_ruleThe Nokia multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to limit the multicast forwarding cache so that its resources are not saturated by managing an overwhelming number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) source-active entries.
SV-283876r1204032_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
SV-283877r1203880_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocols (LLDPs) disabled on all external interfaces and ensure LLDPs are not included in the system level.
SV-283878r1203883_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router providing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) layer 2 virtual private network (L2VPN) services must be configured to authenticate targeted Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) sessions used to exchange virtual circuit information using a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-approved message authentication code algorithm.
SV-283879r1203886_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.
SV-283880r1203889_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to Internet Protocol (IP) core infrastructure.
SV-283881r1203892_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.
SV-283882r1203895_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to implement Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) or Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping for each virtual private local area network services (VPLS) bridge domain.
SV-283883r1204025_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to not redistribute static routes to an alternate gateway service provider into Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) or an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) peering with the NIPRNet or to other autonomous systems.
SV-283884r1203901_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.
SV-283885r1203904_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
SV-283886r1203907_ruleThe Nokia out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to not redistribute routes between the management network routing domain and the managed network routing domain.
SV-283887r1203910_ruleThe Nokia out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to block any traffic destined to itself that is not sourced from the OOBM network or the Network Operations Center (NOC).
SV-283888r1203913_ruleThe Nokia multicast edge router must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.
SV-283889r1223373_ruleThe Nokia multicast router must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.
SV-283890r1203919_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).
SV-283891r1203922_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
SV-283892r1203925_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
SV-283893r1223374_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to protect an enclave connected to an alternate gateway by using an inbound filter that only permits packets with destination addresses within the site's address space.
SV-283894r1203931_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
SV-283895r1203934_ruleThe Nokia router must employ organization-defined controls by type of denial of service (DoS) to achieve the DoS objective.
SV-283897r1203940_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
SV-283898r1203943_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped.
SV-283899r1203946_ruleThe Nokia router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
SV-283900r1203949_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.
SV-283901r1203952_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance with the appropriate Route Distinguisher (RD).
SV-283902r1204027_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
SV-283903r1203958_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.
SV-283904r1204034_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customers or the local autonomous system (AS).
SV-283905r1203964_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
SV-283906r1203967_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.
SV-283907r1203970_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.
SV-283908r1203973_ruleThe Nokia Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).
SV-283909r1203976_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router must be configured to enforce the split-horizon rule for all pseudowires within a virtual private local area network services (VPLS) bridge domain.
SV-283910r1203979_ruleThe Nokia Provider Edge (PE) router providing virtual private local area network services (VPLS) must be configured to have traffic broadcast storm thresholds on customer edge-facing interfaces.
SV-283911r1203982_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-validated Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.
SV-283912r1203985_ruleThe Nokia router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.
SV-283913r1203988_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
SV-283914r1203991_ruleThe Nokia perimeter router must be configured to restrict it from accepting outbound IP packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address field via egress filter or by enabling Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF).
SV-283915r1203994_ruleThe Nokia router must establish organization-defined alternate communications paths for system operations organizational command and control.
SV-283916r1203997_ruleThe Nokia router providing connectivity to the Network Operations Center (NOC) must be configured to forward all in-band management traffic via a Media Access Control Security (MACsec) tunnel.