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Date: 21 June 2004
 

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Testing Access Control Lists

Test your router’s access control lists with Agilent’s multi-port Packets and Protocols Application. Access control lists (ACLs) serve as filters for controlling the traffic that enters or leaves a router’s interfaces. Primarily implemented for security reasons, ACLs instruct a router to block or forward traffic based on specific criteria, such as a packet’s source or destination address or an encapsulated upper-layer application, as indicated by the TCP port number.

ACLs are configured in firewall routers, border routers, or any intermediate router that needs to filter traffic. Separate lists are required for each network protocol the router supports, and each list contains multiple filter terms which must be tested to ensure that the router’s interfaces drop or forward all matching packets accordingly.

With Agilent’s N2X, you can quickly generate the right traffic to verify your router’s access control capabilities. This application note explains how to define streams that match specific ACL statements, then measure how well your device can apply these filter terms under realistic traffic loads.

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