MAC Extended ACL / MAC-Address subnet mask calculation

[pawarpavan]

Hello Team,

I want to configure the mac ACL with a subnet mask but am unable to find any doc which tells the subnet mask calculation for it:

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extreme01(conf-macl-ext)# deny 8759.7ca3.1111 ?

Possible completions:

  <MACADDRESSMASK>   Mac address Mask in HHHH.HHHH.HHHH format.

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I have configured the blow ACL on the switch assuming it will drop traffic with SRC mac from 8759.7ca3.1xxx to 8759.7ca3.XXXX but it is not working as expected.

, It is also dropping traffic which has source Macs 1759.7ca3.1ab1 , a759.7ca3.1ab1 etc.(there are other macs also which are being dropped)

mac access-list extended MAC_Extended

deny 8759.7ca3.1111 8759.7ca3.0000 host 4ab3.1761.818a

exit

Note - For masking it accepts either 0 or f (ex -‘deny 8759.7ca3.1111 8759.7ca3.ffff host 4ab3.1761.818a’) 

VDX6740(7.3.0aa)

Please guide.

-Pavan

[pawarpavan]

Thanks, Michael for your amazing support.

there is a small correction in the syntax :

deny 8759.7ca3.0000 FFFF.FFFF.0000 host 4ab3.1761.818a

This will match any MAC from 8759.7ca3.0000 - 8759.7ca3.FFFF

[Michael_Morey]

Pavan,

Yes you are correct, however in your original post you asked about, 8759.7ca3.1XXX - 8759.7ca3.XXXX

I thought the 33 bit range was strange but just went with it.  If you instead want to match all addresses in the entire last "chomp", using the FFFF.FFFF.0000 it the correct Mask.

[Michael_Morey · Accepted solution]

Pavan,

The correct syntax is "deny [Source MAC] [Source Mask] host [Destination Mac]"

Your command "deny 8759.7ca3.1111 8759.7ca3.0000 host 4ab3.1761.818a" is using an incorrect Mask.

If you want to match 8759.7ca3.1xxx to 8759.7ca3.xxxx you would use the Mask of FFFF.FFFF.1000

deny 8759.7ca3.1000 FFFF.FFFF.1000 host 4ab3.1761.818a

This will match any MAC from 8759.7ca3.1000 - 8759.7ca3.FFFF