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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ProCurve ACL to prevent a subnet from leaving the switch
I have a single HP ProCurve 2610 in a remote location that is connected in with the rest of the network via SHDSL. There are two Layer-3 networks on this segment. ACLs are setup to deny one subnet ...
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VLAN security on HP ProCurve 1810G-24?
I'm looking into the managed switch HP ProCurve 1810G-24 to see if it can meet our office demands. The specs say it has IEEE802.1Q - whatever that means.
Our office consists of four companies that ...
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Wifi hosts can't contact one another (but wired hosts on the same vlan can)
Our current network is vlan'd, and the wifi network is on its own separate vlan (130).
To connect to the 130 vlan, you connect to the access point (a HP MSM310), which is connected to an HP Procurve ...
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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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Adding second HP 2410G-24 Switch
We have a single HP Procurve 2410G-24 Switch.
For the sake of simplicity, there are 2 VLANS configured, and the ports are roughly equally split between them. VLAN1 (LAN) is for server LAN ...
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Configuring VLAN's on two HP procurve switches
Trying to route a new ISP (Microwave link) from one of my out buildings to my computer room and hence my firewall. Old ISP came direct into firewall. In the outbuilding the Microwave modem connects ...
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Setup VLAN agnostic ports on HP ProCurve 1810G (Ingress Filter, Trunking)
I am wondering if it is possible to configure some ports of the web managed ProCurve Switch 1810G to participate in all VLAN traffic. Even if no VLAN with that ID has been set up inside the switch.
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Procurve 5400 10GB
I need some help for 10GB connection. I actually have a Procurve 5400zl series with some port SFP+ on V2 version module. We desperately need to connect a server with pci-x slot.
what can I do to have ...
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HP Procurve 5406ZL - How to enable port-mirroring?
This is my first time asking a question here but I've been lurking around Serverfault and Superuser for a bit. I've tried searching for this but I have yet to find something that would be able to help ...
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HP switch 'mirror port' makes a Cisco switch port err-disabled due to keepalive loop-back
I'm trying to connect an HP ProCurve 5304xl switch to a Cisco 2950. The HP port I'm connecting to is described as a 'mirror port', which appears to be like a SPAN port except that it also allows ...
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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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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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Bonding NICs with Procurve 1400-24G switch
I was looking to bond two or three NICs together to increase throughput. Now, this should be straight forward if done computer to computer, but since there are 3 computers involved which require ...
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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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Fibre (Fiber) Optic - Mixing SFP's and Switches
My generic question is: Can you mix switches on the opposite sides of a fibre link, or more accurately different manufactuors tranceivers.
We just bought several new HP ProCurve v1810 series switches ...
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VLAN Gateways and Routing
This for hypothetical purposes - more of a learning question than an production question.
If I have switch (Layer 3, lets say a Procurve) with a handful of VLAN's configured. Lets say:
DEFAULT VLAN ...
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Cisco Catalyst VTP to HP ProCurve GARP?
I have two L3 capable ProCurve switches (2810-24G) which I would like to use in our Cisco environment.
The Cisco switcheshave vtp configured, and all VLANs are added/maintained basically on the ...
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Default Gateway in a VLAN
Could I have a router/firewall device providing WAN connectivity, part of a VLAN on a switch?
For example:
2, L3 Switches. 2 VLANs
DefaultVLAN 10.1.1.0/24
VLAN100 192.168.1.0/24
Two ...
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Using a Level 2 switch as a core switch
I have a small user base of about 20 people on at a time and spiking up to about 80 people during peak times. Most people (80+%) are connected over our Aruba managed wireless system. We have a Windows ...
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LAN Design Question with HP Procurve
HP Procurve 2510G-24 x 2 Port (For Servers) and 2 x HP Procurve 2510-48 Port 10/100 (For Desktops).
Topology is like :
Patching is terminated on 2nd floor and the servers are located on the 1st ...
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Assign all VLANs on a same port on HP procurve switch
i'm looking for this information for a few hours on the web but i still can't find the answer.
I have a few HP2610 switches (no stacked) and i want to assign all VLANs to switches interconnection ...
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HP Procurve to Cisco - QOS
I have a HP Procurve with the following:
vlan 4
name "Phones"
untagged 20
ip address 10.50.60.1 255.255.252.0
qos dscp 101110
qos device-priority 10.50.100.10 dscp 101110
qos ...
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Spanning tree problems in a shared HP ProCurve environment
we're sharing a server room with another company, including the network infrastructure. All the switches are HP ProCurve, in various models depending on port need and so on. We're using VLANs to ...
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Need help setting up an HP Procurve 2650 switch via serial using Linux.
I recently bought an HP Procurve 2650 (J4899A) off ebay and it came out without a serial cable. So I also purchased a null modem serial cable (rs232) to connect to it (Assuming this is the right one). ...
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Procurve VLAN configuration
I have two ProCurve 1800-24G J9028B linked toghether by a fiber channel on ports n.23. I want an ethernet port (ex. port 21 of switch n1) to be isolated from all the others except of one of the other ...
