Administrator Guide

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After these verification steps are performed, the ACL manager considers the command as valid and sends the information to the
ACL agent on the line card. The ACL manager notifies the ACL agent in the following cases:
A VLAN member is added or removed from a group, and previously associated VLANs exist in the group.
The egress ACL is applied or removed from the group and the group contains VLAN members. VLAN members are added or
deleted from a VLAN, which itself is a group member.
A line card returns to the active state after going down, and this line card contains a VLAN that is a member of an ACL
group.
The ACL VLAN group is deleted and it contains VLAN members.
The ACL manager does not notify the ACL agent in the following cases:
The ACL VLAN group is created.
The ACL VLAN group is deleted and it does not contain any VLAN members.
The ACL is applied or removed from a group, and the ACL group does not contain a VLAN member.
The description of the ACL group is added or removed.
Guidelines for Configuring ACL VLAN groups
ACL VLAN groups are supported on the Z9000 platform.
Keep the following points in mind when you configure ACL VLAN groups:
The interfaces, to which the ACL VLAN group is applied, function as restricted interfaces. The ACL VLAN group name is
used to identify the group of VLANs that is used to perform hierarchical filtering.
You can add only one ACL to an interface at a time.
When you attach an ACL VLAN group to the same interface, a validation is performed to determine whether an ACL is
applied directly to an interface. If you previously applied an ACL separately to the interface, an error occurs when you
attempt to attach an ACL VLAN group to the same interface.
The maximum number of members in an ACL VLAN group is determined by the type of switch and its hardware capabilities.
This scaling limit depends on the number of slices that are allocated for ACL CAM optimization. If one slice is allocated, the
maximum number of VLAN members is 256 for all ACL VLAN groups. If two slices are allocated, the maximum number of
VLAN members is 512 for all ACL VLAN groups.
The maximum number of VLAN groups that you can configure also depends on the hardware specifications of the switch.
Each VLAN group is mapped to a unique ID in the hardware. The maximum number of ACL VLAN groups supported is 31.
Only a maximum of two components (iSCSI counters, Open Flow, ACL optimization) can be allocated virtual flow processing
slices at a time.
The maximum number of VLANs that you can configure as a member of ACL VLAN groups is limited to 512 on the Z9000
switch if two slices are allocated. If only one virtual flow processing slice is allocated, the maximum number of VLANs that
you can configure as a member of an ACL VLAN group is 256 for the Z9000 switch.
Port ACL optimization is applicable only for ACLs that are applied without the VLAN range.
You cannot view the statistical details of ACL rules per VLAN and per interface if you enable the ACL VLAN group capability.
You can view the counters per ACL only using the show ip accounting access list command.
Within a port, you can apply Layer 2 ACLs on a VLAN or a set of VLANs. In this case, CAM optimization is not applied.
To enable optimization of CAM space for Layer 2 or Layer 3 ACLs that are applied to ports, the port number is removed as
a qualifier for ACL application on ports, and port bits are used. When you apply the same ACL to a set of ports, the port
bitmap is set when the ACL flow processor (FP) entry is added. When you remove the ACL from a port, the port bitmap is
removed.
If you do not attach an ACL to any of the ports, the FP entries are deleted. Similarly, when the same ACL is applied on a
set of ports, only one set of entries is installed in the FP, thereby effectively saving CAM space. The optimization is enabled
only if you specify the optimized option with the ip access-group command. This option is not valid for VLAN and LAG
interfaces.
Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)
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