Cam Usage; Implementing Acls On Dell Networking Os - Dell S3048-ON Configuration Manual

CAM Usage

The following section describes CAM allocation and CAM optimization.
• User Configurable CAM Allocation
• CAM Optimization
User Configurable CAM Allocation
Allocate space for IPV6 ACLs by using the cam-acl command in CONFIGURATION mode.
The CAM space is allotted in filter processor (FP) blocks. The total space allocated must equal 13 FP blocks. (There are 16 FP blocks, but
System Flow requires three blocks that cannot be reallocated.)
Enter the ipv6acl allocation as a factor of 2 (2, 4, 6, 8, 10). All other profile allocations can use either even or odd numbered ranges.
If you want to configure ACL's on VRF instances, you must allocate a CAM region using the vrfv4acl option in the cam-acl command.
Save the new CAM settings to the startup-config (use write-mem or copy run start) then reload the system for the new settings
to take effect.
CAM Optimization
When you enable this command, if a policy map containing classification rules (ACL and/or dscp/ ip-precedence rules) is applied to more
than one physical interface on the same port-pipe, only a single copy of the policy is written (only one FP entry is used). When you disable
this command, the system behaves as described in this chapter.
Test CAM Usage
This command applies to both IPv4 and IPv6 CAM profiles, but is best used when verifying QoS optimization for IPv6 ACLs.
To determine whether sufficient ACL CAM space is available to enable a service-policy, use this command. To verify the actual CAM space
required, create a class map with all the required ACL rules, then execute the test cam-usage command in Privilege mode. The
following example shows the output when executing this command. The status column indicates whether you can enable the policy.
Example of the
test cam-usage
Dell#test cam-usage service-policy input asd stack-unit 1 port-set 0
Stack-unit|Portpipe|CAM Partition|Available CAM|Estimated CAM per Port|Status
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1| 1|
Dell#

Implementing ACLs on Dell Networking OS

You can assign one IP ACL per interface. If you do not assign an IP ACL to an interface, it is not used by the software.
The number of entries allowed per ACL is hardware-dependent.
Command
IPv4Flow| 232| 0|Allowed
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