Also, hardware based offloading is a godsend for reliability aswell. You can upgrade the control plane of a router with traffic still flowing thanks to the dat

Also, hardware based offloading is a godsend for reliability aswell. You can upgrade the control plane of a router with traffic still flowing thanks to the data plane being seperate. You can even make another router do control plane for the data plane in another router. Not to mention the massive performance benefits.