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name: ACL Based Forwarding
-maintainer: Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com>
+maintainer: Neale Ranns <neale@graphiant.com>
features:
- 'Policy Based Routing'
- - ACLs match traffic to be forwarded
+ - ACLs identify how traffic should be forwarded. Packets matching a permit
+ rule are forwarded using ABF policy. Packets matching a deny rule are
+ excluded from ABF handling and continue traversing the input feature arc on
+ the L3 path.
- Each rule in the ACL has an associated 'path' which determines how the
traffic will be forwarded. This path is described as a FIB path, so anything
possible with basic L3 forwarding is possible with ABF (with the exception