(Answer) (Category) Cisco CCIE Certification and CCNP Certification FAQs :
In what order do things happen when a packet is processed?
This is a collection of links and explanations for understanding the order of packet processing, ie an inbound access-list is processed before a NAT, etc. It also covers orders of operations of routing protocols.
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Focuses on NAT
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/556/5.html
Focuses on QoS:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk543/tk757/technologies_tech_note09186a0080160fc1.shtml
See this .pdf for a flowchart, includes policy routing and routing protocol filtering.
(Download) routingprocess.pdf (41.3 K)
More specific to BGP processing of routes/filters:
(Xref) In what order are BGP filters applied?
(Xref) How does BGP choose routes?
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