Details
This setting controls whether Solaris forwards broadcast packets for a specific network if it
is directly connected to the machine.
Keep this parameter disabled to prevent denial of service attacks.
Solution
To enforce this setting, use the command-# ipadm set-prop -p _forward_directed_broadcasts=0 ip
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.