HP 2500 manual Overview

Configuring Advanced Features

Configuring Advanced Features

Overview

Overview

This chapter describes the following features and how to configure them with the switch’s built-in interfaces:

■HP ProCurve Stack Management (Page 9-5): Use your network to stack switches without the need for any specialized cabling—page9-5.

■Port-Based VLANs — Page 9-50:

■GVRP — Page 9-77:

■Multimedia Traffic Control with IP Multicast (IGMP) — Page 9-91: Use the switch to reduce unnecessary bandwidth usage on a per-port basis by configuring IGMP controls.

■Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (Page 9-102): Use STP to automati- cally block loops in your network by ensuring that there is only one active path at a time between any two nodes on the network.

For general information on how to use the switch’s built-in interfaces, see:

■Chapter 2, “Using the Menu Interface”

■Chapter 3, “Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)”

■Chapter 4, “Using the HP Web Browser Interface

■Appendix C, “Switch Memory and Configuration”

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