The FAR is a rule which can be presented to a user plane element by a control plane element within either a CUPS (Control and User Plane Separation of EPC Nodes) or 5G Core network scenario. In particular, the FAR will provide information on how a particular packet should be handled (forward, duplicate, drop or buffer).
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