Chapter 18: Access Control Configuration
Overview
Access Control configuration allows you to control different aspects of the Ethernet traffic as it enters the switch ports and is process through the switch. You can specify what traffic is permitted or denied to flow through the switch by setting up specific filter criteria at an ingress port. You can also manage the switching priority of ethernet packets. All of this is done by specifying policies that define the filtering and priority behavior.
Note
Before you specify the Access Control policies, be sure to configure the QoS parameters. The QoS entries may have a direct affect on each policy’s behavior. For more information, see Chapter 15, “Quality of Service and Cost of Service” on page 175.
Before a policy can be defined, you need to specify Access Control configuration information. This information must be entered sequentially on the following web pages:
“Classifier” on page 219
“Profile Action” on page 224
“Port List” on page 235
With the unique index number from each of these web pages, you can configure a “Policy” on page 238
If you define multiple policies for different ports, you can go to “Policy Sequence Status” on page 243 to display the order that policies are applied to each port.
