Question 670
A firewall uplink ACL includes only permit statements and the engineer assumes unmatched traffic is implicitly allowed. The incident evidence is: A new application fails because no permit exists for its destination in the applied ACL. Which targeted configuration or design change best addresses the failure?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The required correction is: Add required explicit permits before relying on the ACL's implicit deny for other packets. The underlying failure mechanism is: The implicit `deny ip any any` at the end blocks unmatched traffic. Verify success by carrying out this direct test: test a matching allowed flow and an unlisted flow to verify expected accept/drop behavior.
Incorrect Answers
Applying an ordered extended ACL permitting the specified TCP443 tuple and deny unintended matching flows at the correct interface/direction would not add required explicit permits.
Order specific management permits would not add required explicit permits. The implicit `deny ip any any` at the end blocks unmatched traffic.
Attaching the ACL at an actual routed interface carrying the traffic in the intended direction would not add required explicit permits. The implicit `deny ip any any` at the end blocks unmatched traffic.






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