[c-nsp] how to stop broadcast,multicast

Kyle Evans evans.584 at osu.edu
Mon Feb 12 08:44:51 EST 2007


Instead of a vlan acl, can you create a port ACL that blocks those ports
and apply it to the 8 interfaces connected to the router?


Kyle

Vikas Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 8 routers (not cisco routers) running ospf and connected to 6509
> switch. 6509 is also running ospf and all are in the same ospf area. All
> router are connected via VLAN to the switch i.e. we have created a vlan and
> all links (from all 8 routers) are going in to that vlan. Now due to some
> reason i want to stop inter communication between 8 routers (i.e only
> broadcast). How can I achieve the same?
>
> My thought process -
>
> I can implement "protected ports" on the switch. But this will only help me
> in not broadcasting within vlan and not reaching to other routers (protected
> port stop broadcast, multicast, unicast between protected ports.). Once
> packets are out of vlan (as ospf database is already there), broadcasted
> packets will go back to routers....
>
> Can I stop these broadcast packets to goback to routers? I can not use
> access-list on the vlan interface as if any packet with mtu size more than
> 1500 byte come, access list will drop the 2nd onward packet (ACL drop
> fregmented packets).
>
> consider i want to stop packets for ports 135-139 and 445.
>
> Regards
> Vikas Sharma
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