Description

When there are more than 2 types of firewall filter configured in EX4650, it is note that one type of filter is not able to program to TCAM.  

Symptoms

For example below, L2 interface firewall filter cannot program to TCAM when all 3 types of filter below configured.

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-L3 Firewall filter

set interfaces lo0 unit 0 family inet filter input mgt-access

set firewall family inet filter mgt-access term telnet-allow from source-address 10.0.0.0/8

set firewall family inet filter mgt-access term telnet-allow from protocol tcp

set firewall family inet filter mgt-access term telnet-allow from destination-port telnet

set firewall family inet filter mgt-access term telnet-allow then accept

 

-L2 vlan-based Firewall filter

set interfaces ge-0/0/11 unit 0 family ethernet-switching 

set vlans ge11-vlan interface ge-0/0/11.0

set vlans ge11-vlan forwarding-options filter input ge11-ff

set firewall family ethernet-switching filter ge11-ff term POLICE from interface ge-0/0/11.0

set firewall family ethernet-switching filter ge11-ff term POLICE then policer ge11

set firewall family ethernet-switching filter ge11-ff term other then accept

set firewall policer ge11 if-exceeding bandwidth-limit 100m

set firewall policer ge11 if-exceeding burst-size-limit 625k

set firewall policer ge11 then discard

 

-L2 Interface-bases Firewall filter

set interfaces ge-0/0/1 unit 0 family ethernet-switching filter input ge01-ff

set firewall family ethernet-switching filter ge01-ff interface-specific

set firewall family ethernet-switching filter ge01-ff term POLICE then policer ge01

set firewall policer ge01 if-exceeding bandwidt

 

 

Error appears upon committing config, L2 interface bases Filter not able to program to TCAM.

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Message from [email protected] at Jun 8 09:55:52 ...

ex4650-20.4R3 fpc0 DFWE ERROR DFW: Filter : "ge01-ff-ge-0/0/1.0-i" is NOT programmed in HW

 

Message from [email protected] at Jun 8 09:55:52 ...

ex4650-20.4R35 fpc0 DFWE ERROR DFW: Cannot program filter ge01-ff-ge-0/0/1.0-i (type IPACL) -TCAM has 0 free entries 

 

 

Solution

This is system limitation in 20.4 that a maximum of 2 filter type is supported at the same time.  This limitation is enhanced in 21.4 so 3 filter type can be used at the same time. 

 

Modification History

v1.0 20230619