The continue clauses allow you to configure and organize more modular policy definitions to reduce the number of policy configurations that are repeated within the same route map.

Continue clause under a route-map provides the capability to execute additional entries in a route map after an entry is executed with a successful match and set clauses. The continue command allows multiple entries to be evaluated within a single route-map. Continue commands can be assigned optional sequence numbers that indicates the order in which clauses are to be evaluated.

When a match clause exists in a route-map with continue clause then continue clause is executed only when a successful match occurs. If a match clause does not exist in the route-map and if a continue clause exists, the continue clause will be evaluated and will go to the specified route-map entry. When a successful match occurs and we have a continue clause, the route-map executes the set clauses and then goes to the specified route-map entry. If a continue clause does not exist in the next route map, then the route-map will behave normally. If a continue clause exists in the next route-map but a match is not successful, the route-map will not continue and will “fall through” to the next sequence number if one exists

Set clauses are executed after the route-map evaluation is done. The set clauses are evaluated and executed in the order in which they were configured. Set clauses are only executed after a successful match occurs. The continue statement proceeds to the specified route-map entry only after configured set actions are performed. If a set action is configured in the first route-map and then the same set action occurs again but with a different value, in a subsequent route-map entry, then the last set action will override the previous set actions which were configured with the same set command.