Configuring Policy-Based Routing - Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-24-250W Administration Manual

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Configuring Policy-Based Routing

Policy-based routing (PBR) enhances/modifies existing features in the EdgeSwitch software. These features
are route maps and access-control lists. Route maps are part of routing (see "Router" on page 200) and
access control lists are part of QOS (see "Configuring Access Control Lists" on page 230). As policy-based
routing feature utilizes services of both features mentioned above, the EdgeSwitch software with a
combination of Routing and QOS packages is required to have PBR functional.
Normally, routers take forwarding decision based on routing tables in order to forward packets to destination
addresses. Policy-Based Routing is a feature that enables network administrator to define forwarding
behavior based on packet contents. In brief, Policy-Based Routing overrides traditional destination-based
routing behavior.
The EdgeSwitch software's policy-based routing feature match the following packet entities and overrides
traditional forwarding behavior accomplished through destination-based routing:
• The size of the packet
• Protocol of the payload
• Source MAC address
• Destination MAC address
• Source IP address
• Destination IP address
• VLAN tag
• Priority
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