Details

This entry starts the dpid2 daemon on system startup. The dpid2 daemon acts as a protocol converter, which enables DPI (SNMP v2) sub-agents, such as hostmibd, to talk to a SNMP v1 agent that follows SNMP MUX protocol.

The dpid2 deamon acts as a protocol converter, which enables DPI (SNMP v2) sub-agents, such as hostmibd, to talk to a SNMP v1 agent that follows SNMP MUX protocol. Unless the server hosts an SNMP agent, it is recommended that dpid2 is disabled.

Solution

In /etc/rc.tcpip, comment out the dpid2 entry-

chrctcp -d dpid2

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/528

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-7b.
• CSCv6|9.1

Source

• Tenable.com/audits