Features And Benefits; Feature Set Summary; High Availability; Prioritization / Qos - HP ProCurve 5308XL-48G Supplementary Manual

Features and Benefits

Feature Set Summary

High Availability

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IP Routing Features:
RIP (v1, v2, and v1 compatible v2) support.
OSPF v2 and OSPF ECMP (Equal Cost Multi-Path) support.
Static IP routes – To manually add routes directly to the routing table.
10,000 network address routes, 65,536 (64K) L3 host address routes
IPv4 routing, IPv6 switching
16 multi-netted interfaces per VLAN
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IRDP (ICMP Router Discovery Protocol) – To advertise the IP addresses of the switch router
interfaces to the directly attached hosts.
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DHCP relay – Allows DHCP requests to be forwarded to links associated with the DHCP server
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UDP broadcast forwarding for applications that require clients to send limited UDP broadcast
to a specific UDP port.
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IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol support – provides very fast Spanning Tree
convergence (approaching 1 second under optimal conditions) on lost links or when the root
switch is unreachable. Compatible with switches running 802.1D Spanning Tree.
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XRRP Router Redundancy Protocol: Two 5300s can back each other up for Layer 3 interfaces.
Failure detection and switch-over can be as fast as 3 seconds.
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ProCurve Layer 2 Switch Meshing: Allows fully meshed connections between switches at layer
2 with all links being used to send traffic.
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LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) support to discover neighboring devices.
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IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) – controls IP multicast and reduce unnecessary
bandwidth usage on a per-port basis.

Prioritization / QoS

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Four priority queues
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Traffic prioritization based on:
UDP/TCP Application Type (port number)
Device Priority (destination or source IP address)
IP Type of Service (ToS/Diffserv) field (IP packets only)
Protocol Priority (IP, IPX, ARP, DEC LAT, AppleTalk, SNA, and NetBEUI)
VLAN Priority
Incoming source-port on the switch
Incoming 802.1p Priority (present in tagged VLAN environments)

Security

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Virus Throttling (Connection Rate Filtering)– Thwarts virus spreading by blocking routing from
certain host exhibiting abnormal traffic behavior.
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ICMP rate-limiting – Throttles denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or other malicious behaviors
that uses high volume ICMP traffic.
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Filtering capabilities include Access Control Lists (ACLs), source port, multicast MAC address
and protocol filtering capabilities.
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802.1X – client based access control
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RADIUS / TACACS+ authentication
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ProCurve Identity Driven Manager (IDM) to dynamically apply security, access and
performance settings to infrastructure devices based on approved user, location and time.
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Port security, MAC lockdown and MAC lockout protection – Restrict access to the network
through the switch port based on the connected host MAC address.
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Static NAT – hide up to 32 nodes per switch from the rest of the network through static IP
address translation.
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