- Written by Aman Gupta
- Posted on June 26, 2026
- Updated on June 26, 2026
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Control Plane Policing (CoPP) classifies control plane traffic into protocol classes (e.g., IGMP, LLDP, BGP) and applies rate limiting per class using queue shaping. On supported platforms, all control plane traffic for a given protocol class is directed to a single queue regardless of the ingress port. As a result, a high-rate flow from a single port or host can consume the entire bandwidth allocated to that class, starving legitimate control plane traffic arriving on other ports.
