The Silver Peak appliance allows you to manage your packet flow by creating route maps. Route maps make it easy for you to identify exactly the traffic that you need to manage. You can create elaborate combinations of match criteria, using IP addresses, ports, protocol, and/or DSCP markings. You can also create more complex matches within ACLs. Or, you can choose to simplify your match criteria by using well-known or user-defined applications, or application groups. By default, one route map is always active, and you can change the active map at any time, simply by activating a different map.
Each route map may have multiple entries. A map entry consists of one or more match statements, which specifies packet fields to be matched, and one
set statement, which takes action on the matched traffic, such as sending it to a tunnel or dropping it.
Entries in a map are ordered according to their assigned priorities. Priorities are used to identify, as well as to order entries within a map. All priority values must be unique (in other words, no two entries in a given map can have the same priority value). In the above example, the priority for the entries is
50.
