Access Lists: Tricks of the Trade

Access lists are a general Cisco mechanism that allows you to be selective in the traffic you forward -- more selective than routing alone. They operate on individual packets, which distinguishes them from the new techniques of traffic engineering. Access lists (and their more powerful cousins, such as route maps) are designed to let you specify selective handling for certain traffic, beyond the rules established by traditional destination-based forwarding.

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