By default, the flow keys are: Source IP address, destination IP address, source port, destination port, layer 3 protocol type, ToS byte (DSCP) and input interface. On Cisco Catalyst we speak of the flow mask that define the flow keys.
| Full Interface | |||||
| VLAN | source IP address | destination IP address | L3 protocol | source port | destination port |
| Full | |||||
| VLAN | source IP address | destination IP address | L3 protocol | source port | destination port |
| Destination-Source-Interface | |||||
| VLAN | source IP address | destination IP address | L3 protocol | source port | destination port |
| Source-Only | |||||
| VLAN | source IP address | destination IP address | L3 protocol | source port | destination port |
| Destination-Only | |||||
| VLAN | source IP address | destination IP address | L3 protocol | source port | destination port |
| Destination-Source | |||||
| VLAN | source IP address | destination IP address | L3 protocol | source port | destination port |