HP 9304M, 9308M Table of Contents, 1. BACKGROUND, 2. EVALUATION FEATURES AND BENEFITS, HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Reviewer’s Guide

HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Reviewer’s Guide

Table of Contents

1. BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................			4
1.1	HP’s Proactive Networking ......................................................................................................................................		4
1.2	What is a Routing Switch?........................................................................................................................................		4
1.3	Hewlett-Packard Switch Products ...........................................................................................................................		4
1.3.1		HP ProCurve Routing Switches Covered in this Guide ....................................................................................	4
1.3.2		Other Switches Available From HP..................................................................................................................	5
1.4	HP Switch Positioning ...............................................................................................................................................		7
1.4.1		Positioning for the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M ................................................................................	7
1.4.2		Positioning for the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M ................................................................................	7

2. EVALUATION FEATURES AND BENEFITS				................................................................... 8
2.1	Feature Set Summary................................................................................................................................................			8
2.2	Architecture ...............................................................................................................................................................			9
2.2.1		Hardware Architecture Summary .....................................................................................................................		9
2.2.2		Packet Processor ...............................................................................................................................................		9
2.2.3		Shared Memory.................................................................................................................................................		9
2.2.4		Forwarding Engine............................................................................................................................................		9
2.2.5		Priority Queues ...............................................................................................................................................		10
2.2.6		System Management Interface........................................................................................................................		10
2.2.7		Backplane Design ...........................................................................................................................................		10
2.3	Layer 3 Services .......................................................................................................................................................			10
2.3.1		IP	.....................................................................................................................................................................	11
2.3.2		IPX..................................................................................................................................................................		11
2.3.3		AppleTalk .......................................................................................................................................................		11
2.4	QoS	............................................................................................................................................................................		12
2.4.1		IEEE 802.3x Flow Control .............................................................................................................................		12
2.4.2		IEEE 802.1p Priority Support .........................................................................................................................		12
2.4.3		Multicast Support............................................................................................................................................		12
	2.4.3.1		DVMRP ......................................................................................................................................................	12
	2.4.3.2		PIM (Dense)................................................................................................................................................	12
	2.4.3.3		IGMP ..........................................................................................................................................................	13
	2.4.3.4		IP Tunneling................................................................................................................................................	13
2.4.4		Layer 4 Features..............................................................................................................................................		13
	2.4.4.1		Priority Queues ...........................................................................................................................................	13
	2.4.4.2		Layer 4 Filtering .........................................................................................................................................	13
2.5	VLANs ......................................................................................................................................................................			13
2.5.1		IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Support .........................................................................................................................		14
2.5.2		IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol ............................................................................................................		14
2.6	Port Trunking (Link Aggregation) ........................................................................................................................			14
2.7	Filtering ....................................................................................................................................................................			15
2.7.1		Layer 2 Filtering .............................................................................................................................................		15
2.7.2		Layer 3 and Layer 4 Filtering .........................................................................................................................		16

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