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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 servers (one application, one IP) serving up…
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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 VLAN10 For the sake of this question, we have a…
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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 -- mostly adding/removing VLANs to all the trunk…
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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 device (HP switch 1 below) at which time the…
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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 can be accessed from this port. Well, it means…
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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 switch" limitation for the link aggregation. Looking…
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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 concern about the stack design. This is primarily…
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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 trunking* to a 2626 switch passing vlan 1 (untagged)…
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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 are dropped when originating from "downstream"…
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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 carrying 802.1q tagged traffic. I can get that far,…
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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 trunk the right way to go between the switches? I…
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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 5412 core switch. The tenants can plug in their PC…
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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 and a handful of servers (I'll leave it at that…
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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 from the switch, intermittent bouts of packet loss…
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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 192.168.1.1 static IP default gateway 192.168.1.2 win2008…
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