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Data plane

In routing, the data plane, sometimes called the forwarding plane or user plane, defines the part of the router architecture that determines what to do with packets arriving on an inbound interface. Most commonly, it refers to a table in which the router looks up the destination address of the incoming packet and retrieves the information necessary to…

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Issues in router forwarding performance

Forwarding information base design

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Data plane

Nodes46
Edges45
Triples5
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.043478
Components1

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Data plane

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Data plane → An, By, The, Unix
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Data plane → part of the software that processes the data requests

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forwarding router packet plane control interface may processor data processing destination routers memory used path fib performance routing main software

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Data planeis apart of the software that processes the data requests0.90text
Data planerelated to Contrast to control planeThe0.60section
Data planerelated to Contrast to control planeBy0.60section
Data planerelated to Contrast to control planeAn0.60section
Data planerelated to Contrast to control planeUnix0.60section

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