Cisco 3560G 48TS Software Configuration Guide - Page 487

Chapter 27 Configuring Network Security with ACLs Figure 27-2 Using VLAN Maps to Control Traffic Understanding ACLs Host A (VLAN 10) Host B (VLAN 10) = VLAN map denying specific type of traffic from Host A = Packet 101353 Handling Fragmented and Unfragmented Traffic IP packets can be fragmented as they cross the network. When this happens, only the fragment containing the beginning of the packet contains the Layer 4 information, such as TCP or UDP port numbers, ICMP type and code, and so on. All other fragments are missing this information. Some ACEs do not check Layer 4 information and therefore can be applied to all packet fragments. ACEs that do test Layer 4 information cannot be applied in the standard manner to most of the fragments in a fragmented IP packet. When the fragment contains no Layer 4 information and the ACE tests some Layer 4 information, the matching rules are modified: • Permit ACEs that check the Layer 3 information in the fragment (including protocol type, such as TCP, UDP, and so on) are considered to match the fragment regardless of what the missing Layer 4 information might have been. • Deny ACEs that check Layer 4 information never match a fragment unless the fragment contains Layer 4 information. Consider access list 102, configured with these commands, applied to three fragmented packets: Switch(config)# access-list 102 permit tcp any host 10.1.1.1 eq smtp Switch(config)# access-list 102 deny tcp any host 10.1.1.2 eq telnet Switch(config)# access-list 102 permit tcp any host 10.1.1.2 Switch(config)# access-list 102 deny tcp any any Note In the first and second ACEs in the examples, the eq keyword after the destination address means to test for the TCP-destination-port well-known numbers equaling Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Telnet, respectively. • Packet A is a TCP packet from host 10.2.2.2., port 65000, going to host 10.1.1.1 on the SMTP port. If this packet is fragmented, the first fragment matches the first ACE (a permit) as if it were a complete packet because all Layer 4 information is present. The remaining fragments also match the first ACE, even though they do not contain the SMTP port information, because the first ACE only checks Layer 3 information when applied to fragments. The information in this example is that the packet is TCP and that the destination is 10.1.1.1. • Packet B is from host 10.2.2.2, port 65001, going to host 10.1.1.2 on the Telnet port. If this packet is fragmented, the first fragment matches the second ACE (a deny) because all Layer 3 and Layer 4 information is present. The remaining fragments in the packet do not match the second ACE because they are missing Layer 4 information. Instead, they match the third ACE (a permit). 78-16156-01 Catalyst 3560 Switch Software Configuration Guide 27-5