Configuring Control Plane Traffic Protection (CPTP)
A network device’s management processor entity needs to be protected from getting overloaded with potentially malicious (or even non malicious) excess traffic received from the network. In NetVisor OS, that can be achieved with the hardware-based Control Plane Traffic Protection feature.
As discussed in the About Control Plane Traffic Protection section above, CPTP is supported in two flavors depending on the switch model, the default configuration and the NetVisor OS release:
- Port-based Control Plane Traffic Protection
- Advanced Control Plane Traffic Protection with Auto-Quarantine
The following sections describe the configuration of both modes.