General Rule "Allow Local Inbound ICMPv6 Multicast Listner and Router Discovery" Details

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Can some one give me all the details associated with this rule?

 

When I view it, I can only see the first three rules: Command 133 - 136, 141- 142, and 130 - 132. There appear to be additional commands associated with this rule.

 

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I expect that it has to do with secure routing;
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4890.txt

Thanks to Google

"Administrators may also wish to consider providing rules in firewall/
   routers to catch illegal packets sent with hop limit = 1 to avoid
   ICMPv6 Time Exceeded messages being generated for these packets.

   Address Configuration and Router Selection messages (must be received
   with hop limit = 255):

   o  Router Solicitation (Type 133)
   o  Router Advertisement (Type 134)
   o  Neighbor Solicitation (Type 135)
   o  Neighbor Advertisement (Type 136)
   o  Redirect (Type 137)
   o  Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation (Type 141)
   o  Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisement (Type 142)

   Link-local multicast receiver notification messages (must have link-
   local source address):

   o  Listener Query (Type 130)
   o  Listener Report (Type 131)
   o  Listener Done (Type 132)
   o  Listener Report v2 (Type 143)"



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Thanks!!

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Hi donziehm!

 

Did Delphinium provide the solution to your problem? If so, will you please mark the aprorpiate post as the Accepted Solution?

 

Thanks!

Dave

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Can some one give me all the details associated with this rule?

 

When I view it, I can only see the first three rules: Command 133 - 136, 141- 142, and 130 - 132. There appear to be additional commands associated with this rule.