Lately I received some questions about routing decisions and how to influence the routing decisions via access control lists. The following example shows a simple configuration for policy-based routing. The example uses the following logical setup:

I configured two routers and connected each router to two PVC’s on the same ATM interface. I configured one subnet per location. All normal traffic is router through PVC #1, but all traffic to or from the servers in the picture should be routed to PVC #2.

The top router has SVI VLAN 1 configured to connected to the inside LAN. The first step in configuring policy-based routing is defining which traffic should be routed over PVC #2. I configured the following access-list.

ip access-list extended acl-pbr
permit ip 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.255 host 192.168.1.100
permit ip host 192.168.1.100 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.255

Next you need to configure a route-map with a “match” statement and configure the appropriate “set” conditions.

route-map rm-pbr permit 10
match ip address acl-pbr
set ip next-hop <PVC #2 IP address>

The last step is applying the configured route-map to the correct interface. As stated before, we are using SVI VLAN 1.

interface Vlan1
ip address 10.10.10.254 255.255.255.0
ip policy route-map rm-pbr

As you can see, configuring policy-based routing is very simple, and yet very powerful.

One issue is when testing policy-based routing from the router. By default, locally-generated packets are not inspected by outgoing access-lists. To enable local packets from being re-entered into the router, you should issue the ip local policy route-map <rm-name>.

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René Jorissen works as Solution Specialist for 4IP in the Netherlands. Network Infrastructures are the primary focus. René works with equipment of multiple vendors, like Cisco, Aruba Networks, FortiNet, HP Networking, Juniper Networks, RSA SecurID, AeroHive, Microsoft and many more. René is Aruba Certified Edge Expert (ACEX #26), Aruba Certified Mobility Expert (ACMX #438), Aruba Certified ClearPass Expert (ACCX #725), Aruba Certified Design Expert (ACDX #760), CCNP R&S, FCNSP and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEF) certified. You can follow René on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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