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Command Modes CONFIGURATION-MAC ACCESS LIST-STANDARD
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.4(0.0) Added support for flow-based monitoring on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module
platform.
9.3(0.0) Added support for logging of ACLs on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module
platform.
8.3.16.1 Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module platform.
Usage
Information
When the configured maximum threshold is exceeded, generation of logs is stopped. When the interval
at which ACL logs are configured to be recorded expires, the subsequent, fresh interval timer is started
and the packet count for that new interval commences from zero. If ACL logging was stopped previously
because the configured threshold is exceeded, it is re-enabled for this new interval.
If ACL logging is stopped because the configured threshold is exceeded, it is re-enabled after the logging
interval period elapses. ACL logging is supported for standard and extended IPv4 ACLs, IPv6 ACLs, and
MAC ACLs. You can configure ACL logging only on ACLs that are applied to ingress interfaces; you
cannot enable logging for ACLs that are associated with egress interfaces.
You can activate flow-based monitoring for a monitoring session by entering the flow-based enable
command in the Monitor Session mode. When you enable this capability, traffic with particular flows
that are traversing through the ingress and egress interfaces are examined and, appropriate ACLs can
be applied in both the ingress and egress direction. Flow-based monitoring conserves bandwidth by
monitoring only specified traffic instead all traffic on the interface. This feature is particularly useful when
looking for malicious traffic. It is available for Layer 2 and Layer 3 ingress and egress traffic. You may
specify traffic using standard or extended access-lists. This mechanism copies all incoming or outgoing
packets on one port and forwards (mirrors) them to another port. The source port is the monitored port
(MD) and the destination port is the monitoring port (MG).
Related
Commands
permit — configures a MAC address filter to pass packets.
seq — configures a MAC address filter with a specified sequence number.
mac access-list extended
Name a new or existing extended MAC access control list (extended MAC ACL).
Syntax
mac access-list extended access-list-name [cpu-qos]
Parameters
access-list-name Enter a text string as the MAC access list name, up to 140 characters.
cpu-qos Enter the keyword cpu-qos to assign this ACL to control plane traffic only
(CoPP).
Defaults None
Command Modes CONFIGURATION
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
8.3.16.1 Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Usage
Information
The number of entries allowed per ACL is hardware-dependent. For detailed specifications on entries
allowed per ACL, refer to your line card documentation.
172 Access Control Lists (ACL)