Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

MAC access lists

In the case where you have an L2 environment or where you are using non-IP protocols on Ethernet interfaces, you can still use a MAC address access list to allow or deny hosts based on MAC addresses. The steps are similar to the IP access list but the match will be based on MAC addresses. Recall that for MAC addresses, or physical addresses, the first six hexadecimal symbols belong to an Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI). So, we can use the same access list matching pattern to deny a certain group of hosts.

We are testing this on IOSv with the ios_config module. For older Ansible versions, the change will be pushed out every single time the playbook is executed. For newer Ansible versions, the control node will check ...