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Action modes

Each brouter port on a Passport 8600 Switch has a default action mode of forward associated with it. A packet that matches any filter with the action mode of drop will be dropped. A packet that matches one filter having the action mode of forward will be forwarded if and only if it does not also match a filter with the drop action mode. If a packet matches multiple filters, if any one of them is drop, the packet will be dropped.

The table below indicates the forward/drop behavior or a port if filter matches are found for a packet.

• Managing filters
• Controlling filters
• Editing Diffserv information
• Building global filter sets
• Building source and destination filter sets
• Editing filtered ports