Administrator Guide

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Access Control Lists (ACLs)
This chapter describes access control lists (ACLs), prefix lists, and route-maps.
At their simplest, access control lists (ACLs), prefix lists, and route-maps permit or deny traffic based on MAC and/or IP
addresses. This chapter describes implementing IP ACLs, IP prefix lists and route-maps. For MAC ACLS, refer to Layer 2.
An ACL is essentially a filter containing some criteria to match (examine IP, transmission control protocol [TCP], or user
datagram protocol [UDP] packets) and an action to take (permit or deny). ACLs are processed in sequence so that if a packet
does not match the criterion in the first filter, the second filter (if configured) is applied. When a packet matches a filter, the
switch drops or forwards the packet based on the filters specified action. If the packet does not match any of the filters in the
ACL, the packet is dropped (implicit deny).
The number of ACLs supported on a system depends on your content addressable memory (CAM) size. For more information,
refer to User Configurable CAM Allocation and CAM Optimization. For complete CAM profiling information, refer to Content
Addressable Memory (CAM).
Topics:
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
IP Fragment Handling
Configure a Standard IP ACL
Configure an Extended IP ACL
Configure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface
Applying an IP ACL
Configure Ingress ACLs
Configure Egress ACLs
IP Prefix Lists
ACL Resequencing
Route Maps
Important Points to Remember
Logging of ACL Processes
Guidelines for Configuring ACL Logging
Configuring ACL Logging
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
In Dell Networking switch/routers, you can create two different types of IP ACLs: standard or extended.
A standard ACL filters packets based on the source IP packet. An extended ACL filters traffic based on the following criteria:
IP protocol number
Source IP address
Destination IP address
Source TCP port number
Destination TCP port number
Source UDP port number
Destination UDP port number
For more information about ACL options, refer to the Dell Networking OS Command Reference Guide.
For extended ACL, TCP, and UDP filters, you can match criteria on specific or ranges of TCP or UDP ports. For extended ACL
TCP filters, you can also match criteria on established TCP sessions.
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