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350-401 Practice Question: Drag and drop the steps of Control Plane Policing…
Drag and drop the steps of Control Plane Policing (CoPP) rate-limit evaluation into the correct order, from first to last.
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Define access list to match control plane traffic
CoPP first classifies traffic using an access list, then matches it to a class map, then applies a policy map with a police action (rate-limit), activates the policy on the control plane, and finally the hardware performs policing.
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Control Plane Policing
Control Plane Policing is a Cisco security feature that protects a router or switch by rate-limiting the traffic that the device's processor must handle, preventing it from being overwhelmed.
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