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Access Control Lists (ACLs)
This chapter describes access control lists (ACLs), prefix lists, and route-maps.
The S5000 switch supports:
Access control lists (ACLs)
Ingress IP and MAC ACLs
Egress IP and MAC ACLs
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 filter’s 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 CAM Allocation and CAM Optimization.
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 Line 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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