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

Related Topics...

• Introduction to Access Control Lists (ACL)

• Standard Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Where should a Standard Access Control List (ACL) be placed

• Access Control List (ACL) - Wildcard Masks

• How to create and configure Standard Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Extended Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Where should an Extended Access Control List (ACL) be placed

• Extended Access Control List (ACL) - Operators

• Extended Access Control List (ACL) - TCP and UDP port numbers and names

• Extended Access Control List (ACL)- established Keyword

• How to create and configure Extended Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• How to create and configure Access Control Lists (ACLs) for vty lines (telnet and ssh)

• How to create and configure Standard Named Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• How to create and configure Extended Named Access Control List (ACL)

• How to edit a Named Access Control List (ACL) on router