Order of Policer and Firewall Filter Operations
Input interface policers are evaluated before any input firewall filters. Likewise, output interface policers are evaluated after any output firewall filters (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Incoming and Outgoing Interface Policers

![]() | Note: Policers can only be applied to unicast packets. For information on configuring a filter for flooded traffic, see Applying Filters to Forwarding Tables. |

