July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
23h 19m
English
Although policy and firewall filters operate on different planes (control versus forwarding), they share a common syntax and language. Once a language is understood, a policy and a filter can be written and implemented quite easily. A policy is used to control the flow of routing information in your network, and a firewall filter is used to control the flow of data packets. This is a very powerful tool on the switches; a misconfigured policy or filter could lead to very painful results for yourself, your colleagues, and especially your boss.
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