topic RE: basic question about ACLs and policies in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

basic question about ACLs and policies

Mareen — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:40:00 GMT

Hi,

i am quite new to ExtremeXOS, coming from the cisco world and I am not really getting the ACL/Policy configuration right. I read the ACL soulution guide but my question was not covered in there.

Here is my question:

If I want to apply ACL´s on 4 different Vlans do I have to create one policy-file for each vlan? Or is the device intelligent enough to differentiate between the rules in 1 policy-file which I applied to the 4 different VLAN´s?

I hope you guys can help me.

Kind Regards,
Mareen

RE: basic question about ACLs and policies

BradP — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:50:00 GMT

Hi Mareen A policy file can be applied to multiple vlans

RE: basic question about ACLs and policies

Mareen — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:01:00 GMT

Thank you.



RE: basic question about ACLs and policies

Christina_M — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:53:00 GMT

Hi there! Here are a couple of resources for you:

1) ACL Solutions Guide: http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/PDFs/EXOS/ACL_Solutions_Guide.pdf

NOTE: This is in the queue to be updated, so we are glad to get any feedback about how it can be improved.

2) Once you understand ACLs a little more, you can configure Dynamic ACL policies on a switch using a web browser (Chalet product). You can read more about that here: http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/chalet/EXOS_21_1/Chalet/t_configuring-acls.shtml

RE: basic question about ACLs and policies

Mareen — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:56:00 GMT

Hi Christina,

thanks for the advice.

It is a little bit difficult for me to rethink the ACL construct of EXOS because I learned it in another way. The ACL Solution Guide is not covering all my questions or it is not deep enough for me .

I will test some scenarios in the Lab to learn about the behavior of EXOS ACL´s.