Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers support firewall filters for the bridge and vpls protocol families. You configure these firewall filters to control traffic within bridge domains and VPLS instances. This chapter explores some of the ways that filters can be used in a Layer 2 environment to control traffic.
MX Series router firewall filters can be applied to:
![]() | Note: Broadcast, unicast unknown, and multicast (BUM) traffic is not affected by input and output policies. BUM traffic can only be filtered by forwarding table policies. |
You use a firewall filter after taking the following two steps:
![]() | Note:
You should deploy firewall filters carefully
because it is easy to cause unforeseen side effects on all traffic,
especially traffic that is not the intended target of the filter.
For more information about configuring firewall filters, see the Junos OS Routing Policy Configuration Guide |
![]() | Note: If chassis is running in enhanced-ip mode, a single shared filter instance will be created for a filter applied across bridge-domains. However, if the chassis is not running in enhanced-ip mode, then separate filter instances will be created for each bridge-domain that the filter is applied to. . |