Best Practices Common to Both IPv4 and IPv6

For both protocol stacks, here are some recommended best practices, which is a great place to start your network configuration:

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Image Physical security: Keep the room where the router is housed free (safe) from electrostatic and magnetic interference. It should also be temperature and humidity controlled. There should be controlled and logged access to that physical room. Redundant systems for electricity that feed into the routers are part of this, as well.

Device hardening: Disable services that are not ...

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