HP 2530-24 Installation And Getting Started Manual page 56

Troubleshooting
Basic Troubleshooting Tips
C a u t i o n
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Because the HP 2530 Switches behave in this way (in compliance with
the IEEE 802.3 standard), if a device connected to the switch has a fixed
configuration at full duplex, the device will not connect correctly to the
switch. The result will be high error rates and very inefficient communi-
cations between the switch and the device.
Ensure all devices connected to the HP 2530 Switches are configured to
auto negotiate, or are configured to connect at half duplex (all hubs are
configured this way, for example).
■ Faulty or loose cables. Look for loose or obviously faulty connections.
If the cables appear to be OK, make sure the connections are snug. If that
does not correct the problem, try a different cable.
Non-standard cables. Non-standard and miswired cables may cause
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network collisions and other network problems, and can seriously impair
network performance. Use a new correctly-wired cable or compare your
cable to the cable in appendix A,
Specifications" for pinouts and correct cable wiring. A category 5 cable
tester is a recommended tool for every 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T
network installation.
■ Improper Network Topologies. It is important to make sure you have
a valid network topology. Common topology faults include excessive
cable length and excessive repeater delays between end nodes. If you have
network problems after recent changes to the network, change back to
the previous topology. If you no longer experience the problems, the new
topology is probably at fault. Sample topologies are shown at the end of
chapter 2 in this book.
In addition, you should make sure that your network topology contains
no data path loops. Between any two end nodes, there should be only
one active cabling path at any time. Data path loops will cause broadcast
storms that will severely impact your network performance.
For your Switch, if you wish to build redundant paths between important
nodes in your network to provide some fault tolerance, you should enable
Spanning Tree Protocol support on the switch. This ensures that only
one of the redundant paths is active at any time, thus avoiding data path
loops. Spanning Tree can be enabled through the switch console or the
Web browser interface.
The HP 2530 Switches also support Trunking, which allows multiple
network cables to be used for a single network connection without
causing a data path loop. For more information on Spanning Tree and
Trunking, see the Management and Configuration Guide, which is on
the HP Web site at www.hp.com/networking/support.
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