Cisco routers process routing protocols on which functional plane?

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Cisco routers process routing protocols on which functional plane?

Data plane
Service plane
Management plane
Control plane

Explanation: The control plane is responsible for building the routing and forwarding tables.

Dynamic routing processes (such as OSPF, EIGRP, or BGP) run at the process level on the main CPU within the control plane to exchange topology information and determine the best paths.

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