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Cisco ASA Series Firewall CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Service Policy Using the Modular Policy Framework
About Service Policies
Note
When you use a global policy, all features are unidirectional; features that are normally bidirectional
when applied to a single interface only apply to the ingress of each interface when applied globally.
Because the policy is applied to all interfaces, the policy will be applied in both directions so
bidirectionality in this case is redundant.
For features that are applied unidirectionally, for example QoS priority queue, only traffic that enters (or
exits, depending on the feature) the interface to which you apply the policy map is affected. See the
following table for the directionality of each feature.
Feature Matching Within a Service Policy
A packet matches class maps in a policy map for a given interface according to the following rules:
1.
A packet can match only one class map in the policy map for each feature type.
2.
When the packet matches a class map for a feature type, the ASA does not attempt to match it to any
subsequent class maps for that feature type.
3.
If the packet matches a subsequent class map for a different feature type, however, then the ASA
also applies the actions for the subsequent class map, if supported. See
for more information about unsupported combinations.
Note
Application inspection includes multiple inspection types, and most are mutually exclusive.
For inspections that can be combined, each inspection is considered to be a separate feature.
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Feature Directionality
Feature
Single Interface Direction Global Direction
Application inspection (multiple types)
Bidirectional
Ingress
ASA CSC
Bidirectional
Ingress
ASA CX
Bidirectional
Ingress
ASA CX authentication proxy
Ingress
Ingress
ASA FirePOWER (ASA SFR)
Bidirectional
Ingress
ASA IPS
Bidirectional
Ingress
NetFlow Secure Event Logging filtering
N/A
Ingress
QoS input policing
Ingress
Ingress
QoS output policing
Egress
Egress
QoS standard priority queue
Egress
Egress
TCP and UDP connection limits and timeouts,
and TCP sequence number randomization
Bidirectional
Ingress
TCP normalization
Bidirectional
Ingress
TCP state bypass
Bidirectional
Ingress
User statistics for Identity Firewall
Bidirectional
Ingress
Summary of Contents for ASA 5512-X
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