DDOS, mistreating, and attacks on the control plane

Now, before diving deeper into the attack phase, let’s understand some of the networking basics first to define Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) on control planes.

Planes

Planes in networking are simply defined as the dimensions to define how the data packet will be transmitted from the source to the destination and handled during data transmission, as well as the methods of monitoring the data transmission.

Now, these planes, in networking terminology, are divided into three categories:

• The control plane
• The data plane
• The management plane

The control plane

The control plane decides how to forward the data, which means how the data will be transferred from source to destination. The process of creating the routing table in which the routers store the network paths is part of the control plane.

The data plane

Now, once the control plane decides on the data transference, the data...