Administrator Guide

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When creating an access list, the sequence of the filters is important. You have a choice of assigning sequence numbers to the
filters as you enter them, or the Dell Networking Operating System (OS) assigns numbers in the order the filters are created.
The sequence numbers are listed in the display output of the show config and show ip accounting access-list
commands.
Ingress and egress Hot Lock ACLs allow you to append or delete new rules into an existing ACL (already written into CAM)
without disrupting traffic flow. Existing entries in the CAM are shuffled to accommodate the new entries. Hot lock ACLs are
enabled by default and support both standard and extended ACLs and on all platforms.
NOTE: Hot lock ACLs are supported for Ingress ACLs only.
CAM Usage
The following section describes CAM allocation and CAM optimization.
User Configurable CAM Allocation
CAM Optimization
User Configurable CAM Allocation
Allocate space for IPV6 ACLs by using the cam-acl command in CONFIGURATION mode.
The CAM space is allotted in filter processor (FP) blocks. The total space allocated must equal 13 FP blocks. (There are 16 FP
blocks, but System Flow requires three blocks that cannot be reallocated.)
Enter the ipv6acl allocation as a factor of 2 (2, 4, 6, 8, 10). All other profile allocations can use either even or odd numbered
ranges.
If you want to configure ACL's on VRF instances, you must allocate a CAM region using the vrfv4acl option in the cam-acl
command.
Save the new CAM settings to the startup-config (use write-mem or copy run start) then reload the system for the new
settings to take effect.
CAM Optimization
When you enable this command, if a policy map containing classification rules (ACL and/or dscp/ ip-precedence rules) is applied
to more than one physical interface on the same port-pipe, only a single copy of the policy is written (only one FP entry is used).
When you disable this command, the system behaves as described in this chapter.
Test CAM Usage
This command applies to both IPv4 and IPv6 CAM profiles, but is best used when verifying QoS optimization for IPv6 ACLs.
To determine whether sufficient ACL CAM space is available to enable a service-policy, use this command. To verify the actual
CAM space required, create a class map with all the required ACL rules, then execute the test cam-usage command in
Privilege mode. The following example shows the output when executing this command. The status column indicates whether
you can enable the policy.
Example of the test cam-usage Command
Dell#test cam-usage service-policy input TestPolicy linecard all
Linecard|Portpipe|CAM Partition|Available CAM|Estimated CAM per Port|Status
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
2| 1| IPv4Flow| 232| 0|Allowed
2| 1| IPv6Flow| 0| 0|Allowed
4| 0| IPv4Flow| 232| 0|Allowed
4| 0| IPv6Flow| 0| 0|Allowed
Dell#
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Access Control Lists (ACLs)