Dell SmartFabric OS10 User Guide Release 10.5.3

Access Control Lists

OS10 uses two types of access policies — hardware-based ACLs and software-based route-maps. Use an ACL to filter traffic and drop or forward matching packets. To redistribute routes that match configured criteria, use a route-map.

ACLs

ACLs are a filter containing criterion to match; for example, examine internet protocol (IP), transmission control protocol (TCP), or user datagram protocol (UDP) packets, and an action to take such as forwarding or dropping packets at the NPU. ACLs permit or deny traffic based on MAC and/or IP addresses. The number of ACL entries is hardware-dependent.

ACLs have only two actions — forward or drop. Route-maps not only permit or block redistributed routes but also modify information associated with the route when it is redistributed into another protocol. When a packet matches a filter, the device 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 drops, an implicit deny. ACL rules do not consume hardware resources until you apply the ACL to an interface.

ACLs process in sequence. If a packet does not match the criterion in the first filter, the second filter applies. If you configure multiple hardware-based ACLs, filter rules apply on the packet content based on the priority numeric processing unit (NPU) rule.

Route maps

Route-maps are software-based protocol filtering redistributing routes from one protocol to another and used in decision criterion in route advertisements. A route-map defines which of the routes from the specified routing protocol redistributes into the target routing process, see Route-maps.

Route-maps which have more than one match criterion, two or more matches within the same route-map sequence, have different match commands. Matching a packet against this criterion is an AND operation. If no match is found in a route-map sequence, the process moves to the next route-map sequence until a match is found, or until there are no more sequences. When a match is found, the packet forwards and no additional route-map sequences process. If you include a continue clause in the route-map sequence, the next route-map sequence also processes after a match is found.