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What is the function of the control plane?
The correct answer is A. It exchanges routing table information.. The control plane is the part of a network that controls how data packets are forwarded - meaning how data is sent from one place to another. The process of creating a routing table, for example, is considered part of the control plane. Routers use various protocols to identify n
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- AIt exchanges routing table information.
- BIt provides CLI access to the network device.
- CIt looks up an egress interface in the forwarding information base.
- DIt forwards traffic to the next hop.
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(22 responses)- A91% (20)
- B5% (1)
- D5% (1)
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The control plane is the part of a network that controls how data packets are forwarded - meaning how data is sent from one place to another. The process of creating a routing table, for example, is considered part of the control plane. Routers use various protocols to identify network paths, and they store these paths in routing tables.
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