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What is the general feeling on ACLMAN over policy rules.
Have been building Cisco ACLs for years, I have a blackbelt in it . ACLMAN allows you to do the same thing with same interface.
Just last time I built an ACL with ACLMAN it managed to take down an entire spanned vlan .. Don't know why, don't trust it now.
Has anyone else had the same bother ? Should I try it again or learn the impossily obscure Policy Rules interface ?
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.

ACLMAN doesn't offer all the capabilities of the AOS ACL environment, I suggest you look into the AOS-way to do ACLs.

B

Thanks for the reply Benny ,
Just out of curiosity why do you say that ?
With a cisco ACL (extended ) you can most of what you want to do on one line ( with the exception of service groups).
From looking at ACL Policy , you need a condition , an action and a rule . For the life of me I can't figure out how to hang stuff off interfaces , it seems to add the ACL to the L3 fabric ...
I have read the manual back to front , front to back and side to side... Could not make sense of it .
Any further comments greatly appreciated.
Ta

Reg

hi

I'm firendly with Policy rule and with some time it is easy.

Approach differ as you didn't enfore policy on port level, but you can have a condition with port source.

ACLMAN with my last conversation was : "to not use it ..."

Cedric

Cedric,


Very interesting.

Looks like I have to make all effort on Policies. Back to the manual .



Regards

Reg

Ok I was wrong.... Policy Manager is really, really cool .
Like most things on Alcatel , you question their methods of doing things until you try them , you then "get it"!