Authorized Self-Study Guide Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), Third Edition

Appendix D. Manipulating Routing Updates Supplement

This appendix discusses policy-based routing. It covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Policy-Based Routing

• Configuring Policy-Based Routing

• Verifying Policy-Based Routing

• Policy-Based Routing Examples

Chapter 7, “Manipulating Routing Updates,” describes route maps and how you can use them for route filtering. This appendix describes another use for route maps, called policy-based routing (PBR). PBR enables the administrator to define a routing policy other than basic destination-based routing using the routing table. With PBR, route maps can be used to match source and destination addresses, protocol types, and end-user applications. When a match occurs, a set command can be used to define ...