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ltp_55848
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Jun 29, 2011

Wildcard forwarding for direct node traffic with PBR

Hi All,     Apologies if this question has been asked before; I've waded my way through a lot of forum posts but haven't seen the problem I'm facing - feel free to prove otherwise.     I a...
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The_Bhattman
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Jun 30, 2011
Hi LTP,

 

Unfortunately, there is no online documentation that makes a note of the difference. My test is based a behavior I saw in my Lab when I first tested the Nexus 7K and 5K against the F5 Load balancer and it was verified with my Cisco SE after he spoke with the Nexus product manager. For some reason Cisco decided that permit and deny statements should be honored at the route-map level instead of the ACL. It even changes slightly when you ad vPC into the network.

 

 

You can find information about Cisco Nexus PBR on the following link:

 

 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/unicast/configuration/guide/l3_pbr.html

 

 

Bhattman