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What is the Difference between Control Plane traffic and Data Plane Traffic ?

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Question added by Vivek Kumar , L1 Network Engineer , Wipro Infotech
Date Posted: 2017/06/12
Shawn Hansen
by Shawn Hansen , Network Integrator , Aviat Networks

When routing packets the control plane is where routes are planned with static routes or learned with dynamic routing protocols. Packets containing routing protocol information are processed on the control plane. The data plane is the forwarding of data packets over the transit path from source to destination.

Syed Nashiz Daulatana Nashiz
by Syed Nashiz Daulatana Nashiz , Senior Network Engineer , Tech Mahindra Ltd.

The main diffrences between control and data plan are that control plane consist of packets that are destined to or locally originated by router itself whearas data plane consist of traversing traffic.

hasan imam
by hasan imam , Executive Engineer , Comsys Communication Solutions

Control Plane traffic is related to control information like hello packets of a routing protocol suppose, whereas Data plane traffic is the plane forwarding actual data. 

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