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Parent topics
- Computer networking reference models [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Routing [r]: The process of receiving a packet on one interface of a router, validating the packet and forwarding it out the appropriate interface. [e]
Subtopics
- Control plane [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forwarding plane [r]: The part of the router architecture that decides what to do with packets arriving on an inbound interface. [e]
- Routing protocols [r]: Mechanisms that exchange information about the reachability of various network destinations among routers, from which the router control plane builds a "map" of the routing domain [e]
