ویژگی هایی در IOS های سیسکو که در صورت عدم نیاز باید آنها را غیر فعال یا محدود نمایید...

اخیرا با مروری که روی برخی ویژگی های IOS انجام شد مواردی مشخص گردید که ممکن است شما نیز روی روتر خود  با آن مواجه شده باشید.

بسیاری از این ویژگی ها بصورت پیش فرض فعال هستند و می توانند امنیت شبکه شما را کاهش دهند.برای از بین بردن این ریسک شما می توانید آن هارا بررسی نموده و در صورت عدم نیاز آنها را غیر فعال یا محدود نمایید که لیست این ویژگی ها در ذیل ذکر شده است :

 

• CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) or LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol): You are probably familiar with CDP or LLDP. It’s very useful to discover (Cisco) neighbor devices but it also gives away a lot of information like your (router) model, IP address, IOS version etc. If you don’t use it it’s better to disable it globally or on certain interfaces.
• TCP Small servers: This is some TCP standard network services like echo, disable it.
• UDP Small Servers: Same for UDP, best to disable it.
• Finger: User lookup service, originally for Unix. Can be used remotely to list logged in users. Nobody needs to know this kind of information remotely…
• HTTP server: very nice for in a labbut not a good idea in a production environment.
• Bootp server: Allows other routers to boot from this router, hardly ever used…
• Configuration auto-loading: Your router will try to boot up from a TFTP, i’ve only used this once so my regular 2600′s could boot the XM image in a lab…not gonna use it in production.
• PAD service: Router will support X.25, not gonna use it.
• IP Source routing: allows the creator of an IP packet to choose the route, you don’t want this.
• Proxy ARP: Your router will answer (proxy) for L2 ARP requests, don’t use this.
• IP directed broadcasts: Allows you to send packets to the broadcast address of another subnet, allows “smurf attacks”. Used for DOS attacks…so disable this.
• IP Unreachable notifications: Your router will notify a sender of incorrect IP addresses, gives away information.
• IP Mask reply: Router will send the subnet mask of an interface in response to a ICMP mask request, gives away information.
• IP Redirects: Your router will send an ICMP redirect in response to some router IP packets.
• Maintenance Operations Protocol (MOP): Old management protocol, part of DECNET.
• NTP service: Your router can become a time server, perhaps not needed.
• SNMP: If you don’t use SNMP, I’d suggest to disable/block it.
• DNS: Routers can perform DNS lookups, if you don’t use this i’d disable it.

 منبع : http://networklessons.com/security/cisco-ios-features-that-you-should-disable-or-restrict