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ProCurve was the trade name of network products developed by Hewlett-Packard from 1998 to 2010. Since 2010 the brand name changed to HP Networking Products but users still recognize them as ProCurve.

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How exactly & specifically does layer 3 LACP destination address hashing work?

Based on an earlier question over a year ago (Multiplexed 1 Gbps Ethernet?), I went off and setup a new rack with a new ISP with LACP links all over the place. We need this because we have individual ...
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What do switches do to tagged and untagged VLAN packets?

Let's say we have a 4-port switch that is VLAN capable. 1 2 3 4 Port 1 is TAGGED to VLAN10` and `UNTAGGED to Default_VLAN(1) Port 2 is UNTAGGED to VLAN10 Port 3 is UNTAGGED to ...
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Server-to-Switch Trunking in Procurve switch, what does this mean?

I am looking to set up switch redundancy in a new datacenter environment. IEEE 802.3ad seems to be the go-to concept on this, at least when paired with a technology that gets around the "single ...
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Admin mode on Procurve Switches

Not being a network expert, I spent some time configuring my network, until I found my mistake: On my HP ProCurve Switch 1810G, I thought that "Admin mode" means whether the administrative interface ...
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HP to Cisco spanning tree root flapping

Per a recent question I recently configured both my HP (2x 2900) and Cisco (1x 3750) hardware to use MSTP for interoperability. I thought this was functional until I applied the change to the third ...
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Automatic rollout of VLAN (and other) configs to Procurve switches

I've got a pile of switches connecting everything together at our DC, 50 racks or so worth of kit. It's starting to be a problem to login to every single one of them to make configuration changes -- ...
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Setup of HP ProCurve 2810-24G for iSCSI?

I have a pair of ProCurve 2810-24G that I will use with a Dell Equallogic SAN and Vmware ESXi. Since ESXi does MPIO, I am a little uncertain on the configuration for links between the switches. Is a ...
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HP ProCurve 2920 switch stack topology for TWO switches? Ring vs. Chain vs. trunk?

I have a customer whose two HP ProCurve 2910al PoE switches have failed. This was backing a VoIP deployment for a small call center. They are interested in replacement PoE switches, but there's a ...
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Network traffic doesn't appear to leave the trunk

I'm in the process of staging up some new virtualization servers, and part of that is to get some higher-bandwidth pipes into them. The ultimate goal is to bind 4 GigE ports into a single trunk ...
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dhcp-snooping option 82 drops valid dhcp requests on 2610 series Procurve switches

We are slowly starting to implement dhcp-snooping on our HP ProCurve 2610 series switches, all running the R.11.72 firmware. I'm seeing some strange behavior where dhcp-request or dhcp-renew packets ...
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HP Procurve Issue Passing Multiple VLANs over a link

Just to start off with I am a Cisco guy that got placed into an HP project. Basic topology overview from outside in: ASA 5505 with two Ethernet connections to a 2610 switch. This switch is then ...
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How to configure a HP Procurve network for IPv4+IPv6

The setup: We are an apartment complex with approximately 1700 units. Every apartment has internet with an ethernet plug in each. The network has 60 HP 2910al-48G switches connected to a central HP ...
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Fault Tolerance with 2 HP ProCurve 2824 Switches

Looking for some advice on our current situation. We have a full rack at a data center that contains 1 uplink to the data center distribution layer switch (we don't control this), 2 HP ProCurve 2824's ...
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Multiple vlan issue with procurve switch

I have a cisco asa5505 as my rtr/fw(10.1.3.254). I have vlan 1 and vlan 3. Vlan 1 is my default all access vlan. Vlan 3 is my Guest(dmz) vlan. I can't seem to get a dhcp ip address when my laptop ...
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Procurve 2810 command line - reassigning ports to a different VLAN

A very basic question, but my googling has failed to find an answer... At present the VLAN config looks like this: vlan 1 name "DEFAULT_VLAN" untagged 1 ip address 10.200.1.134 255....
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ProCurve network expansion

I've hit a bit of a wall with our network scale-out. As it stands right now: We have five ProCurve 2910al switches connected as above, but with 10GbE connections (two CX4, two fiber). This fully ...
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Procurve Primary VLAN

I'm trying to depreciate usage of VLAN 1 on my ProCurve switches; 1 is unused. I understand that VLAN 1 must exist, but I want to remove it from all ports, especially trunks between switches. The ...
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HP Procurve 5406ZL - How to enable port-mirroring?

How would you enable port mirroring for a HP Procurve 5406ZL? The configuration guide is not very clear in the mirror-port function. I know that I'll need to use the mirror-port [[ethernet] PORT-NUM]...
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HP Procurve 2920 VLANs with DHCP cannot ping

I have problem setting up working VLANs and DHCP server on HP Procurve 2920. My problem is that I cannot even ping computers between VLANs with static ip addresees. winXP pc on VLAN101 with 192.168.1....
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HP Procurve MAC cache timeouts on long TCP sessions

We have a network of HP 2510G switches connected back to HP2912al for aggregation. We've noticed that long running connections like a MySQL DB dump start flooding out to all network ports once the ...
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HP ProCurve Preventing Loops and Users Plugging in Unauthorized Switches/Access-Points

We have a HP ProCurve 2530-24-PoE (J9773A) switch, recently I had a user who plugged in an Apple wireless hardware device to the network - whenever it was connected I got a ton of broadcast warnings ...
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Setting up Multicast NLB Cluster with HP 6120XG Switch

How can I setup an NLB cluster across 2 blades connected via a HP 6120XG Switch? All of the guides are for Cisco and setup static ARP entries on the switch but that is not possible on the HP Switch. ...
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HP ProCurve 5412zl warm-boots on power failure while attached to UPS

My client's HP ProCurve 5412zl chassis switch reboots on occasion, despite being powered through four redundant power supplies and being under UPS protection. These reboots usually happen during a ...
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How to calculate required switch speed based on network usage?

I have a 48 100Mbit/s port HP Procurve Switch 2610 (J9088A) that can handle 13.0 million PPS (packets per second) and features wire speed switching capacity at 17.6Gbps. First off, what does that ...
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10 GigE interfaces limits single connection throughput to 1 Gb on a ProCurve 4208vl

The setup is as follow : 3 Linux servers with Intel CX4 10 GigE controllers and an X-Serve with a Myricom 10 GigE CX4 controller are connected to a ProCurve 4208vl switch, with a myriad of other ...
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Connecting a USB laptop to a RJ45 serial port

We are about to get our first managed switch at work (Procurve 2520G-24-PoE), and this lowly programmer gets to put on his admin hat and try to configure it. The switch has an RJ45 serial port for ...
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How do I remove (un-apply) a named filter from a Procurve switch port using the CLI?

EDIT: Edited my examples to reflect that I was indeed attempting this with the switch in "configure" mode. Still no joy. EDIT: I've done some more searching on this issue. I just can't seem to see it ...
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HP Procurve 2512/2524 protected port, source port filter or similar?

HP Procurve switches usually have a setting so that the ports are told which other ports they can communicate with. An easy setup using this is to only allow communication with the uplink, so that no ...
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pfsense port-security limit mac to 1 (any mac allowed)

I am trying to set up HP procurve routers (25xx and 26xx) with port-security. Goal is to allow client devices and routers. But to disallow a switch, AP or a router in bridge mode. This should be ...
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iSCSI SAN Implementation with several ESXi hosts and two Equallogic SANs

I work for a small state college. We currently have 4 ESXi hosts (all made by Dell), 2 EqualLogic SANs (PS4000 and PS4100) and a bunch of old HP Procurve switches. The current setup is very far from ...
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ProCurve 1800 switch issue

I recently deployed ProCurve 1800-24G switches in place of some older ProCurve 2424M switches in my network. However, I'm having a serious problem with the switch connected to the router. It seems, ...
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Procurve script/automation

This may be a stupid question, but I'm normally not a network admin, but circumstances have me there. I'm trying to disable down ports on a switch, but have a boatload of them, I'd like to configure ...
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will heavy network traffic affect other connections on HP ProCurve V1810-48G?

I have a HP ProCurve V1810-48G switch with a few servers running Citrix XenServer connected to it (everything in one rack). The switch is almost in its default configuration (no VLAN, no port ...
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HP ProCurve 5406zl does not accept direct attach cable with error "Not an HP Networking transceiver"

I have an HP 5406zl switch running the latest firmware in the non-early release branch (K.15.14.0007, ROM K.15.30) and it is not accepting direct attach SFP+ cables in its SFP+ module. The module is a ...
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HP Procurve Core Switch Architecture

I want to build a new 'core' for our network. We currently have a 3com 4060 switch acting as the core, connecting all the other TOR and access switches together. The goal is to add resilience into ...
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Configure spanning tree from HP to Cisco hardware

I have three switches I'd like to configure in a loop - a Cisco stack (3750s) and two HP 2900 series. Each is connected to the next with a 10 gig backplane of one form or another. How do I configure ...
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HP 4204vl (J8770A) non-blocking switching capacity

On the information page for the above mentioned switch, it says "Supports a maximum of 96 autosensing 10/100 ports or 96 autosensing 10/100/1000 ports or 16 mini-GBICs or 4 10-GbE ports, or a ...
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Rate Limiting with HP ProCurve 5406 QOS

Is it possible to enable an absolute value rate limit using QOS on a HP ProCurve 5406 switch for a particular IP address on a specific port? We have a 10Mbps head end connection for multiple ...
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HP Procurve 2650 has password set after factory reset

I have a problem with HP ProCurve 2650 switch. I don't have a password to it so I did a factory reset (pressing reset and clear buttons for 10 seconds). The problem is it still asks for the password. ...
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VLAN isolation failure with HP Procurve, Juniper Netscreen

I'm having problems with hosts being able to ping other hosts they shouldn't be able to communicate with. Fairly simple network - relevant hardware: HP Procurve 2810-24G switch Juniper Netscreen 208 ...
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Does HP IRF work the way I think it does?

I finally have approval to better centralize our Ethernet. When last I left off I was looking to the future to figure out how best to handle expansion. Now, I have answers. I now have a pair of A5820 ...
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ProCurve 2610 Java error?

I've got two identical procurve 2610-24/12PWR switches with the web interface configured. I can log in to one and see all the management info just fine. When I load the web interface of the other I'...
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IP Routing on All Switches or just Core

I have 1 core switch in our MDF for server equipment and 6 data closet switches that connect clients. At this point I only have IP Routing enabled on the core switch so all IP routing is done in one ...
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Get port vlan tag via snmp on HP Procurve

I'm trying to write a nagios check that will check if a port is a member of (tagged in) a perticular VLAN. I've discovered the following SNMP location SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.17.7.1.4.5.1.1.40 for checking ...
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vconfig created virtual interface and trunking - is the the interface untagged or tagged for that VLAN ID?

I am trying to setup an additional VLAN on our Debian-based router/firewall (which exists as a virtual machine on Hyper-V), our core switch (an HP Procurve 5406) and a remote HP ProCurve 2610 that is ...
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HP Procurve 1800 Switch-to-Switch Trunks and LACP (and VLANs too!)

I am considering connecting two (and possibly three) HP Procurve 1800 switches together with trunks or with LACP. I can't find any substantial answer to my questions via Google or here. I did find ...
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Only able to ping WiFi AP for about 60 seconds, then is full access after

I have 3 x Mikrotik RB951Ui-2HnD router board (RB) running 6.31 with wlan1 bridged with ethernet 2. STP is disabled on the RB bridge (protocol mode set to None). I have a HP ProCurve 2520-24-PoE ...
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DHCP Server Issuing NAK when servicing multiple subnets

We currently have 3 VLANs setup in our network. On our DHCP server (Windows 2008) we have 3 scopes created for the 3 separate subnets. Our clients can't seem to pull addresses on the subnets, except ...
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Is the HP ProCurve 1800-24G Switch fanless or not?

Does the HP ProCurve 1800-24G Switch have a fan or not? The specs say that it does not have a fan, and so do many references I can see on the web. However, a person who is offering to sell me a used ...
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HP 2510G Loop Protect doesn't work

I have a problem with Loop-Protect on a HP 2510G Switch. I configured Loop-Protect with loop-protect all receiver-action send-disable and set transmit-interval 1 and disable-timer 30. I tested my ...
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