NETGEAR 7000 Series manual Chapter Access Control Lists ACLs, Overview, MAC ACLs, Limitations

Chapter 9

Access Control Lists (ACLs)

This section describes the Access Control Lists (ACLs) feature.

Overview

Access Control Lists (ACLs) can control the traffic entering a network. Normally ACLs reside in a firewall router or in a router connecting two internal networks. When you configure ACLs, you can selectively admit or reject inbound traffic, thereby controlling access to your network or to specific resources on your network.

You can set up ACLs to control traffic at Layer 2, or Layer3. MAC ACLs are used for Layer 2. IP ACLs are used for Layers 3.

Each ACL contains a set of rules that apply to inbound traffic. Each rule specifies whether the contents of a given field should be used to permit or deny access to the network, and may apply to one or more of the fields within a packet.

Limitations

The following limitations apply to ACLs. These limitations are platform dependent.

•Maximum of 100 ACLs

•Maximum rules per ACL is 8-10

•Stacking systems do not support redirection

The system does not support MAC ACLs and IP ACLs on the same interface. The system supports ACLs set up for inbound traffic only.

MAC ACLs

MAC ACLs are Layer 2 ACLs. You can configure the rules to inspect the following fields of a packet (limited by platform):

•Source MAC address with mask

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