Named Access Control Lists (ACL)
A great feature of Cisco IOS is Named Access Control Lists. Cisco routers support Named Access Control Lists (ACLs) from IOS version 11.2.
A major limitation of Numbered Access Control Lists (ACLs) was the number of total numbered Access Control Lists (ACLs) you can create was limited. Following table shows the Access Control List (ACL) numbers you can use for Standard Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Extended Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Access Control Lists (ACL) Type |
Access Control Lists (ACL) Numbers |
IP Standard |
1–99, 1300–1999 |
IP Extended |
100–199, 2000–2699 |
Named Access Control Lists (ACLs) allows standard and extended ACLs to be given names instead of numbers. Unlike in numbered Access Control Lists (ACLs), we can edit Named Access Control Lists.
To create a Named Access Control List (ACL), we can use the following IOS command from Global Configuration mode.
Router(config)# ip access-list standard|extended ACL_name
