Access Policies

Lab Topology

Access Policy Topology

Access Policies for leaf front panel ports

Access policies define the connectivity from external devices to ACI leaf switches such as interfaces, VLANs, CDP, LLDP, etc.

Access Policy

Attachable Entiry Profile is used for linking many to many relationships between Domains and Interface Policy Groups.

A domain determines the type of bridge domain that is deployed to the leaf port.

Interface Policy Group

There are several types of interface policy groups:

  • Physical Ports
  • Port Channels
  • Virtual Port Channels

VPC

First of all, we will need to create a VPC domain for a pair of leaf switches:

VPC domain

Note: See the below reference for a VPC config guide

To find out which Interface Policy Group is used for a VPC:

leaf101# show vpc extended
Legend:
                (*) - local vPC is down, forwarding via vPC peer-link

vPC domain id                     : 100
Peer status                       : peer adjacency formed ok
vPC keep-alive status             : Disabled
Configuration consistency status  : success
Per-vlan consistency status       : success
Type-2 consistency status         : success
vPC role                          : primary
Number of vPCs configured         : 1
Peer Gateway                      : Disabled
Dual-active excluded VLANs        : -
Graceful Consistency Check        : Enabled
Auto-recovery status              : Enabled (timeout = 240 seconds)
Operational Layer3 Peer           : Disabled

vPC Peer-link status
---------------------------------------------------------------------
id   Port   Status Active vlans
--   ----   ------ --------------------------------------------------
1           up     -

vPC status
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
id   Port   Status Consistency Reason               Active vlans Bndl Grp Name
--   ----   ------ ----------- ------               ------------ ----------------
1    Po1    up     success     success              -            UplinkForN9KVPC1 <<< Interface Policy Group

leaf101# show port-channel extended
Flags:  D - Down        P - Up in port-channel (members)
        I - Individual  H - Hot-standby (LACP only)
        s - Suspended   r - Module-removed
        S - Switched    R - Routed
        U - Up (port-channel)
        M - Not in use. Min-links not met
        F - Configuration failed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Group Port-       BundleGrp                Protocol  Member Ports
      Channel
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1     Po1(SU)     UplinkForN9KVPC1         NONE      Eth1/3(P)

To check LACP messages:

leaf101# show lacp int e1/3 | grep -i pdu
  PDUs sent: 10
  PDUs rcvd: 0

The leaf101 does not receive and LACP PDUs.

Common Problems

  • Speed mismatch
  • MCP - Duplicate VLAN
  • A VPC policy group represent 1 virtual port-channel.
  • LACP Mismatch