Reference Guide
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).
deny ether-type (for Extended MAC ACLs)
Configure an egress filter that drops specified types of Ethernet packets on egress ACL supported line 
cards. (For more information, refer to your line card documentation).
Syntax
deny ether-type protocol-type-number {destination-mac-address 
mac-address-mask | any} vlan vlan-id {source-mac-address mac-
address-mask | any} [count [byte]] [order] [log [interval 
minutes] [threshold-in-msgs [count]] [monitor]
To remove this filter, you have two choices:
• Use the no seq sequence-number command if you know the filter’s 
sequence number.
• Use the no deny ether-type protocol-type-number {destination-
mac-address mac-address-mask | any} vlan vlan-id {source-
mac-address mac-address-mask
 | any} command.
Parameters
log (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword log to enable the triggering 
of ACL log messages.
threshold-in 
msgs count
(OPTIONAL) Enter the threshold-in-msgs keyword 
followed by a value to indicate the maximum number of ACL 
logs that can be generated, exceeding which the generation 
of ACL logs is terminated with the 
seq, permit, or deny 
commands. The threshold range is from 1 to 100.
interval 
minutes
(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword interval followed by the 
time period in minutes at which ACL logs must be generated. 
The time interval range is from 1 to 10 minutes.
monitor (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword monitor when the rule is 
describing the traffic that you want to monitor and the ACL 
in which you are creating the rule is applied to the monitored 
interface.
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