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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series
Date 2/11/2003
Version 1.1
HP ProCurve Switch 5372xl
HP ProCurve Switch 5348xl
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide Table of Contents 1. BACKGROUND.................................................................................................................5 1.1 HP ProCurve Networking ......................................................................................................................................5 1.2 Hewlett-Packard 5300 Switch Products ............................................................................................
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2.5.1.2 Static Filters.............................................................................................................................................20 2.5.2 802.1x – Port-based access control / RADIUS Authentication .......................................................................20 2.5.2.1 RADIUS Server Accounting ...........................................................................................................
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 4.1 ProCurve Networking Web Site...........................................................................................................................33 5. PRICING..........................................................................................................................35 © Hewlett-Packard Co. 2002, 2003 Rev 1.1 – 2/11/2003 Page 4 of 35 http://www.hp.com/go/hpprocurve
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 1. Background This HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide will help network engineers at computer trade publications, resellers and end-user sites evaluate the merits of the HP ProCurve switches. 1.1 HP ProCurve Networking HP ProCurve Networking is an extensible line of products working together to provide the control network administrators need to deliver the network uptime and performance that their organizations requir
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide • HP ProCurve Switch redundant power supply (J4839A) Pricing for each of these switches and modules is given in the Pricing section. 1.3 HP ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture™ Networks are now being asked to carry many different types of data with differing delivery requirements. Traffic volumes are rising quickly. Security needs are more stringent. And the typical user is demanding a higher level of mobility than ever before. To meet t
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide HP ProCurve product portfolio layer 3 and 4+ managed chassis hp procurve routing switch 9315m layer 2, 3, and 4 • 10/100/1000/10 Gigabit • 232 Gigabit or 672 10/100 layer 2 and 3* managed chassis ports • 15 open module slots managed chassis hp procurve switch 5372xl and managed stackables • 10/100/1000 • 72 ports new layer 2 • 5 open module slots modules hp procurve switch 4108gl bundle • 10/100/1000 managed stackables and chassis • 72 ports
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 1.4.1 Positioning for the HP ProCurve Switch 5308xl The HP ProCurve Switch 5308xl is a 5U wire speed Layer 2/3/4 eight slot chassis switch targeted primarily at high performance access tier applications where higher port density is needed. The HP ProCurve Switch 5308xl provides up to 32 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 192 10/100-TX with HP Auto-MDI-X ports. Voice, video and data ready, the Switch 5300xl series offers extensive prioritization tha
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2. Evaluation Features and Benefits 2.1 Feature Set Summary The HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series are store-and-forward Layer 2/3/4 routing switches. Features, discussed in more detail later in this section, include: 2.1.1 Architecture • A high speed Layer 3 architecture consisting of a full routing switch ASIC on each module, all interconnected via the backplane crossbar switch fabric ASIC. Both ASICs are HP designed. Up to 16,536 (16
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide • Port security – MAC lockdown • SSHv2 – secure connection for telnet services • SSL – Secure Sockets Layer for secure interaction between a browser and the 5300’s management GUI interface • Management VLAN – Limit CLI/GUI/telnet access to the switch to a particular VLAN • Manager authorized list – limiting access to the Web services, telnet and tftp 2.1.5 Bandwidth Management • 802.3ad LACP (Port Trunks) – (Link Aggregation Control Pro
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2.1.9 New Features in Software Release E.07.21 (released January 22, 2003) • ACLs • XRRP • 100FX module software support • SSHv2 • SSL • SNMPv3 • IGMPv3 • Meshing improvements • OSPF Route Authentication • Debug/Logging 2.2 Architecture 2.2.1 Hardware Architecture Summary The HP ProCurve Switch 5304xl has 4 identical slots, while the HP ProCurve Switch 5308xl has eight. Any of the Switch 5300xl modules can be put in any of the slot
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2.2.2.1 Classification and Lookup When a packet first comes in, the classifier section determines the packet characteristics, its addresses, VLAN affiliation, any priority specification, etc. The packet is stored in input memory, lookups into the table memory are done to determine routing information and a N-Chip specific packet header is created for this packet with this information. This header is then forwarded to the programmable sect
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2.2.3 F-Chip The fabric, or F-Chip, which is located on the backplane of the switch, provides the crossbar fabric for interconnecting the modules together. The use of a crossbar allows wire speed connections simultaneously from any module to any other module. As mentioned in the N-Chip section, the connection between the F-Chip and each N-Chip (module) in the chassis is through a 9.6Gbps full duplex link. One unique function of the F-Chi
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide • Static IP routes: 512 maximum per chassis • IRDP (ICMP Router Discovery Protocol) • Proxy ARP • Up to 10,000 network address routes – enough for a large local environment • Up to 65,536 Layer 3 host address routes • Bootp Relay Service • Encapsulation type: Ethernet II • 8 Subnets per VLAN: one primary subnet and up to 7 secondary subnets. Maximum 512 secondary subnets per chassis. (Max 256 primary subnets (VLANs) + 512 secondary sub
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2.3.3 Switch Meshing (LAN Aggregation) The HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series family supports HP’s Switch Meshing, a way to interconnect these switches in a meshed topology at Layer 2. Meshed switch-to-switch links can all be used simultaneously to their full advantage, with traffic being load-balanced through redundant links based on dynamically determined latency on the different possible paths between switches. Highly available, faul
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide • Unlike a router, no packet modification is required as it travels through the switch. Other HP ProCurve switches that support Switch Meshing, such as the HP ProCurve Switch 4000M family, will work together in a mesh with the HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series. There are a few corner case caveats in this type of mixed environment that are covered in the HP ProCurve 5300xl documentation. The HP ProCurve 5300xl documentation can be found at:
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide • If a 5300 Management VLAN is enabled it cannot be defined as an XRRP interface – SNMP management requests to a particular 5300 need to go to that physical switch regardless of fail-over status. • XRRP does not interoperate with VRRP, but can coexist in a VRRP environment without interference. For more details see the HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series documentation located at: http://www.hp.com/go/hpprocurve under the Technical Support s
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide that has 802.1Q tagging turned on. For diffserv, each of the diffserv code points (DSCP) can have a priority set for it. It is also possible to set a new DSCP and 802.1p priority based on the incoming DSCP, or set the 802.1p priority alone based on the incoming DSCP. The ability to re-write the DSCP allows the network manager to: • Identify packets coming from a different area of the network, such as a remote site, by changing the DSCP
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide 2.4.5 End-to-End QoS QoS capabilities in the switch allow it to deal with two different concerns that arise in Ethernet networks: congestion control and latency. In the past, controlling traffic congestion was viewed as the primary reason for QoS. But with Ethernet prices dropping substantially year after year it has been easier and lower cost to deal with congestion, at least in the local LAN, by increasing the bandwidth available to tra
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HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl Series Reviewer’s Guide ignored. If a packet does not match any of the conditions in the ACL, it is denied. This is in keeping with the typical use of ACLs as a security mechanism. If the automatic denial property is not wanted, the ACL should end with an ACE statement permitting ANY. To assist in writing and editing ACLs, the ACL file can be edited externally and downloaded into the 5300. A typical use for standard ACLs is to allow a single end node on one subne
