Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Reference Guide

QoS Policy Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

page 53-149

Redirects all traffic (flooded, bridged, routed, and multicast) matching a redirect policy to the specified 
port instead of the port to which the traffic was destined.

policy action action_name redirect port slot/port

policy action action_name no redirect port

The name of the action.

The slot and port number (or range of ports) that will receive the redi-
rected traffic. 

N/A

OmniSwitch 6400, 6850, 6855, 9000, 9000E

• Use the no form of the command to remove redirect port from the policy action. 

• When redirecting routed traffic from VLAN A to VLAN B, the redirect port must belong to VLAN B 

(tagged or default VLAN).

• Routed packets (from VLAN A to VLAN B) are not modified after they are redirected; the source and 

MAC address remain the same. In addition, if the redirect port is tagged, the redirected packets will 
have a tag from the ingress VLAN A.

• If a route exists for the redirected flow, then redirected packets are the final post-routing packets.

• If a route does not exist for the redirected flow, the flow is not redirected to the specified port or link 

aggregate and is “blackholed”. As soon as a route is available, the flow is then redirected as specified 
in the policy.

• In most cases, a redirected flow will not trigger an update to the routing and ARP tables. If necessary, 

create a static route for the flow or assign the redirect port to the ingress VLAN (VLAN A) to send 
packets to the redirect port until a route is available.

• When redirecting bridged traffic on VLAN A, the redirect port must belong to VLAN A (tagged or 

default VLAN).

-> policy action rp01 redirect port 1/12

-> policy action rp01 no redirect port