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# Enabling Peering Control Plane Traffic

In addition to [service-to-service traffic routing](/docs/connect/gateways/mesh-gateway/service-to-service-traffic-peers), mesh gateways can optionally be used to route control-plane traffic between peers.
This includes the initial secret handshake and the bi-directional stream replicating peering data.
In addition to [service-to-service traffic routing](/docs/connect/gateways/mesh-gateway/service-to-service-traffic-peers),
we recommend routing control plane traffic between cluster peers through mesh gateways
to simplfy networking requirements.

Control plane traffic between cluster peers includes
the initial secret handshake and the bi-directional stream replicating peering data.
This data is not decrypted by the mesh gateway(s).
Instead, it is transmitted end-to-end using the accepting cluster’s auto-generated TLS certificate on the gRPC TLS port.

<Tabs>
<Tab heading="With mesh gateways (recommended)">

[![Cluster peering with mesh gateways](/img/consul-connect/mesh-gateway/cluster-peering-connectivity-with-mesh-gateways.png)](/img/consul-connect/mesh-gateway/cluster-peering-connectivity-with-mesh-gateways.png)

</Tab>

<Tab heading="Without mesh gateways">

[![Cluster peering without mesh gateways](/img/consul-connect/mesh-gateway/cluster-peering-connectivity-without-mesh-gateways.png)](/img/consul-connect/mesh-gateway/cluster-peering-connectivity-without-mesh-gateways.png)

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## Prerequisites

To configure mesh gateways for cluster peering control plane traffic, make sure your Consul environment meets the following requirements:
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