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Chapter 39 ACL Configuration 
39.1 Introduction to ACL 
ACL (Access Control List) is an IP packet filtering mechanism employed in switches, providing 
network traffic control by granting or denying access the switches, effectively safeguarding the 
security  of  networks.  The  user  can  lay  down  a  set  of  rules  according  to  some  information 
specific  to packets, each  rule  describes the  action for a  packet with  certain  information 
matched: “permit” or “deny”. The user can apply such rules to the incoming direction of switch 
ports, so that data streams of specified ports must comply with the ACL rules assigned.  
39.1.1 Access-list 
Access-list is a sequential collection of conditions that corresponds to a specific rule. Each rule 
consist of filter information and the action when the rule is matched. Information included in a 
rule is  the effective combination of  conditions such as  source IP,  destination IP,  IP protocol 
number and TCP port, UDP port. Access-lists can be categorized by the following criteria: 
   Filter  information based  criterion:  IP  access-list (layer 3  or  higher  information), MAC 
access-list (layer 2 information), and MAC-IP access-list (layer 2 or layer 3 or higher). 
   Configuration complexity based criterion: standard and extended, the extended mode 
allows more specific filtering of information. 
   Nomenclature based criterion: numbered and named. 
Description of an ACL should cover the above three aspects. 
39.1.2 Access-group 
When a set of access-lists are created, they can be applied to traffic of incoming direction on 
all  ports.  Access-group  is  the  description  to  the  binding  of  an  access-list  to  the  incoming 
direction on a specific port. When an access-group is created, all packets from in the incoming 
direction through the port will be compared to the access-list rule to decide whether to permit 
or deny access. 
The current firmware only supports ingress ACL configuration. 
39.1.3 Access-list Action and Global Default Action 
There are two access-list actions and default actions:  “permit” or “deny”. The  following rules 
apply: 










