Why not data plane interface?  (Control plane and data plane, and their
distinction, are not exactly new terms/concepts...)

Lou

On 11/27/2012 10:30 PM, Nagendra Kumar (naikumar) wrote:
> Or May be some thing like Control Plane interface (CPi) and Data 
> Forwarding/Forwarder interface (DFi)?.
> 
> -Nagendra
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>     > From: "Zach Seils (seils)" <[email protected]>
> 
>     > What about simple "control interface" and "data interface" designations?
> 
> "Control interface" I like. I'm a lot less sold on "data interface" - it 
> sonuds like some sort of programmatic thing, rather that (usually) a piece of 
> hardware over which user data packets are sent.
> 
> 'Physical interface' for the latter is probably not optimal, now that I think 
> about it; we probably want to support virtual interfaces as well. How about 
> 'network interface', though?
> 
>       Noel
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