How Management CPU and Data Plane CPU work?

[LCMember2107]

as title

I can't find any answer about them. so, I need someone help

thanks

[HULK · Accepted solution]

Hello,

PAN firewall is having 2 planes ( data-plane and mgmt-plane) to perform all tasks in a organize manner.

For example:

Mgmt-plane-CPU:

-- it takes care about all daemons running in the firewall i.e authd, mgmt-server, dev-server etc.

-- Running dynamic routing protocols i.e OSPF, BGP

--- IPSec key management

-- firewall GUI.

Data-plane CPU:

--  Handles traffic, passing across the PAN firewall.

--- Physical interface management.

--- Maintaning active routing table for traffic.

Thanks

[pulukas]

This diagram of the PA architecture tries to capture the separation of data plane packet processing and management plane control system processing.

See the tech brief on Content ID for a fuller discussion on the processing modes in the PA firewall.

http://media.paloaltonetworks.com/documents/techbrief-content-id.pdf