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access-list issue

kevintang
Level 1
Level 1

Hi,

We know access-list 12 permit 192.89.55.0 255.255.255.0

is invalid, because the wildcard is wrong.

My problem is that the router did not give you any error message when type it in the router, instead it changed to access-list 12 permit 0.0.0.255 255.255.255.0 and added in the router. this cause a lot of problem because some of the network address is passed the filter.

Is it the bug in Cisco IOS?

R7>sh ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

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Compiled Mon 29-Nov-04 15:39 by kellythw

Image text-base: 0x80008098, data-base: 0x81FB49F0

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(7r) [cmong 7r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

ROM: C2600 Software (C2600-JK9O3S-M), Version 12.3(12), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)

R7 uptime is 3 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes

System returned to ROM by reload

System image file is "flash:c2600-jk9o3s-mz.123-12.bin"

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cisco 2621XM (MPC860P) processor (revision 0x100) with 94208K/4096K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID JAE07330L5V (761626841)

M860 processor: part number 5, mask 2

Bridging software.

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

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TN3270 Emulation software.

2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

1 Serial network interface(s)

32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2102

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It's not a bug in the IOS. 0.0.0.255 255.255.255.0 is a valid access list statement in which the router doesn't care about the first 3 octets. Any traffic from .255 is the only traffic that will be permitted. Though, in your case, it's a broadcast address and cannot be used. There can be many situations where someone entering a subnet mask by mistake in an ACL could translate to a valid/useful access control entry. Hence, the router always translates the ACE to the right address/wild card mask.

It's easy to make a typo or an unintentional error when configuring access list. After configuring an ACL, I always double check my work by doing a 'show access-list (#)' and verify that it's configured the way I want it to be.

HTH

Sundar

deilert
Level 6
Level 6

Kevin the router is interpreting the wildcard mask just as it was put in

192.89.55.0 255.255.255.0 = ingnore first octet, ingnore second octet, ingnore third octet and match the last octet of the ip address, hence the 0.0.0.255

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