IP-Based Filtering and Selective Port Mirroring of MPLS Traffic

Support is provided for applying inbound and outbound filters for MPLS family based on MPLS-tagged IPv4 and IPv6 parameters using inner payload match conditions, and enable selective port mirroring of MPLS traffic unto a monitoring device. To enable IP-based filtering, additional match conditions, such as IPv4 and IPv6 source and destination addresses, protocol, source and destination ports, and IPv4 and IPv6 source and destination prefix list, are added under the MPLS filter term from parameter. To enable port mirroring, additional actions, such as port-mirror and port-mirror-instance, are added for all the match conditions under the filter term then parameter.