Enabling Replying To Multicast Echo Requests; Enabling Sending Of Icmpv6 Time Exceeded Messages - HP 6125G Configuration Manual

Step
2. Configure the capacity
and update interval of
the token bucket.

Enabling replying to multicast echo requests

If hosts are configured to answer multicast echo requests, an attacker can use this mechanism to attack
a host. For example, if Host A (an attacker) sends an echo request with the source being Host B to a
multicast address, all the hosts in the multicast group will send echo replies to Host B. To prevent such an
attack, disable a device from answering multicast echo requests by default. In some application
scenarios, however, you must enable the device to answer multicast echo requests.
To enable replying to multicast echo requests:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Enable replying to multicast
echo requests.

Enabling sending of ICMPv6 time exceeded messages

A device sends out an ICMPv6 Time Exceeded message in the following situations:
If a received IPv6 packet's destination IP address is not a local address and its hop limit is 1, the
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device sends an ICMPv6 Hop Limit Exceeded message to the source.
• Upon receiving the first fragment of an IPv6 datagram with the destination IP address being the
local address, the device starts a timer. If the timer expires before all the fragments arrive, an
ICMPv6 Fragment Reassembly Timeout message is sent to the source.
If large quantities of malicious packets are received, the performance of a device degrades greatly
because it must send back ICMP Time Exceeded messages. You can disable sending of ICMPv6 Time
Exceeded messages.
To enable sending of ICMPv6 time exceeded messages:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Enable sending of ICMPv6
Time Exceeded messages.
Command
ipv6 icmp-error { bucket
bucket-size | ratelimit
interval } *
Command
system-view
ipv6 icmpv6 multicast-echo-reply
enable
Command
system-view
ipv6 hoplimit-expires enable
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Remarks
Optional.
By default, the capacity of a token bucket is 10
and the update interval is 100 milliseconds. A
maximum of 10 ICMPv6 error packets can be
sent within 100 milliseconds.
The update interval "0" indicates that the
number of ICMPv6 error packets sent is not
restricted.
Remarks
N/A
Not enabled by default
Remarks
N/A
Optional.
Enabled by default.