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Traffic Management
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This section identifies the features associated with Traffic Management:

IP Layer Input Checks
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* Source Reverse Path Forwarding
* Time To Live expiration
* IP header checksum
* Layer 2 Length < IP Length

Classifiers
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* Multiple million Classifiers - Arbitrary N-tuple

Policers
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* Colour Aware & Token Bucket
* Rounding Closest/Up/Down
* Limits in PPS/KBPS
* Types: 

  * Single Rate Two Colour
  * Single Rate Three Colour
  * Dual Rate Three Colour

* Action Triggers

  * Conform
  * Exceed
  * Violate

* Actions Type

  * Drop
  * Transmit
  * Mark-and-transmit

Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
* mirror traffic to another switch port

ACLs
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 * Stateful
 * Stateless

COP
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MAC/IP Pairing
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Security feature