This object defines whether traffic matching this policy-based-forwarding filter's ACL is permitted to continue toward its configured next hop, or is discarded outright. Administrators use this as the core decision element of a PBF rule, choosing 'discard' to actively block a class of traffic rather than reroute it. For example, a filter matching traffic from a known problematic source subnet could have this object set to 'discard' to drop that traffic instead of forwarding it anywhere.