PBR policy action and action list

Entries in a policy use a class to specify the criteria on what packets to match and a set of one or more policy actions to take on the matching packets such as dscp or mirror.

PBR is configured for use as another such policy action in a policy entry by using the pbr keyword followed by the name of a user configured PBR action list. This list may contain up to eight PBR action entries which are listed according to priority by sequence number. The PBR actions section lists the different action entry choices.

In a given action list applied to an interface, zero entries may be available (that is, reachable). Of the entries that are available, only one can be active for that action list in a given VRF. Due to real-time changes in the network operating environment, list entry availability can change at any moment. At any given time, the highest priority available entry in the list is selected as the active PBR action for that list. If the active entry becomes unavailable, the next highest available entry is automatically selected and replaces that now-unavailable entry as the active entry. If a higher priority entry (other than the current active entry) becomes available, this entry is selected and replaces the current active entry, as the new active entry (even though that current entry is still available). If no entries are available or the only available entry becomes unavailable, routing occurs based on the routing table and is not influenced by PBR.