Standard and Enhanced Policy Considerations

This section itemizes additional policy considerations for the stackable and standalone platforms, and provides a table cross-referencing standard and enhanced policy capability and policy capability to traffic classification rules.

Not all stackable fixed switch platforms support policy. On some stackable and standalone fixed switch platforms policy support requires a purchased license. See the software release notes that come with your device for policy support.

Standard and Enhanced Policy Capability Cross-Reference provides a listing of policy capabilities by standard and enhanced support level. Standard policy capabilities are further granulated based upon traffic classification support. See Policy Capability to Traffic Classification Rule Cross-Reference for a cross-reference of traffic classification to policy capability support.

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Standard and Enhanced Policy Capability Cross-Reference

Policy Support Level Policy Capability
Standard
Enhanced
  • TCI Overwrite – The ability to overwrite user priority and other VLAN tag TCI field classification information.
  • Invalid Policy Action – The ability to set a drop, forward, or default-policy behavior based upon an invalid action.

Policy Capability to Traffic Classification Rule Cross-Reference provides a cross-reference of standard ( ) and enhanced (X) policy capability to traffic classification rule.

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Policy Capability to Traffic Classification Rule Cross-Reference

Traffic Classification Rule Dynamic Admin VLAN CoS Drop Forward Syslog Trap Disable
MAC Source Address X X   X X X      
MAC Destination Address       X X X      
IPX Source Address                  
IPv6 Destination Address       X X X      
IPX Destination Address                  
IPX Source Socket                  
IPX Destination Socket                  
IPX Transmission Control                  
IPX Type Field                  
IP Source Address       X X X      
IP Destination Address       X X X      
IP Fragmentation       X X X      
UPD Port Source       X X X      
UDP Port Destination       X X X      
TCP Port Source       X X X      
TCP Port Destination       X X X      
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Packet Type                  
Time-To-Live (TTL)       X X X      
IP Type of Service       X X X      
IP Protocol       X X X      
Ether II Packet Type       X X X      
LLC DSAP/SSAP/CTRL                  
VLAN Tag                  
TCI-Overwrite                  
Port String X X   X X X