[[nsp] ACLs]

[Rick Burts]

The one place I frequently see reordering is in standard access lists 
where the IOS will move a host specific reference higher in the list 
and other entries are added at the end as you would expect.

Rick

Brian Wallingford wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> :Chris Davis <chris.davis at computerjobs.com> writes:
> :
> :> Isn't ACL optimization a feature of CiscoWorks?  Unless I'm mistaken, your
> :> router should accept an ACL as pasted.
> :
> :On the bigger routers, the internal representation of ACLs is quite
> :different from the list you present to the router.  Some translation
> :process is involved, and at least some optimization is usually part of
> :it.
> 
> I can't imagine this optimization would include reordering.  There's lots
> of fubar potential in doing such.  ACLs can have drastically different
> results based on ordering.
> 
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