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re vie w e r ’s g u ide H P P roCurve Switch Routi ng Switch 9304M H P P roCurve Switch Routi ng Switch 9308M Date 4/1/1999 Version 4.0 HP Pr oCur ve Rou ti ng Sw itch 9308 M HP Pr oCur ve Rou ti ng.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide Table of Contents 1. BACK GROUND ................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 H P’s Proactive Net w ork i ng ...
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.8 F lex i bility ................................................................................................................. ................................................. 16 2.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 1. Background This Routing S wit ch Rev iew er’s Gui d e w ill he lp net wor k te sting eng i neer s a t compu t er t r ade publica t ion s , resel l er s and end - use r si tes evaluate the mer its of the HP ProCurve rou t ing swit ches.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide Pri cin g for each o f these s wit che s and modul es i s given i n sec ti on 5 . 1.3.2 Other S w itch es Av ailab l e From H P Below is a comp let e list of s w itch es available fro m HP.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide HP ProC urve S witch 224M Fixed con f igu r ation desktop s wit ch with (24) 10 Mbps E t hernet ports and (2) 100Base-T ports (one fi xed.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 1.4 HP Sw itch Po si tio n in g HP i d ent ifi es th ree d iff ere nt c l assif i ca ti ons f o r s w itches: node/ d esktop, top - of -stack and bac kbone switche s . The rou tin g s wit ches are t a rge t ed a t th e m e di um to lar ge backbone.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2. Evaluation Featur es and Benefits 2.1 Feature Set Summ a r y The HP ProCurve Routing Swit ch 93 04M and HP Pr oCurve Routin g Sw it ch.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.2 Architectu re 2.2.1 Ha rd wa re A r chitecture Summary The HP ProCurve Routing S wit ch 93 04M h a s 4 ident i cal s l ots , whil e the HP Pr oCu r ve Rou t ing Swi t ch 9308M ha s e i ght.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.2.4 For w a rding Engine The f orw ard i ng eng i ne, a cus t om AS IC present on each m odule, uses the infor mati on in th e FI D to actually move the packets to and fro m ei the r ext e rna l ports or the backplane switch fab r ic via the shared memory.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.3 Layer 3 Services Rout ing fo r bo th IP an d I PX is done in ASI C hardw a re a t wir e speed.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide switched ports is at wi re sp eed, s i nce it is l ooked at as Layer 2 tra ffic th at ju st happens to be App l eTa lk at Layer 3.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide generate mult ica s t pa th trees through the n etw ork so tha t a particula r mu ltica s t str e am is only s e nt on links tha t ultima tely reach a rece ive r of that strea m .
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.4.4.2 L ayer 4 F ilt er in g The 9300 rou t in g s wit ches can f ilt er b a sed on IP addr esses, IP po rt number and IPX ne tw ork number. More deta ils are g i ven later in the F ilt ering section.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2. 6 Por t Tr unking (Li n k Aggregation) Link Aggregat i on is t h e indus tr y t erm fo r t he ab ilit y t o co mbin e m ultiple cot e rm i nous l inks (li nks that begin a t the sa me poin t and end at the sa me point ) as on e log i cal l i nk.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.7.2 La yer 3 and La yer 4 Filter ing At Layer 3 and Laye r 4, t h ese fi lte r s avai lable are: IP Fi lte rs IP X Fi lt ers I nbound and/o r out b ound I P a ddre sse s I nbound and/o r out b ound I P X addre sse s Protocol type s (UDP, TCP, etc.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.9 R e liab il i ty Overall re liability of a produc t is det e rm in ed no t only by ho w mu ch t im e bet w een p r oduct fa ilu res, but also how f a st a failed unit can be repa ired o r rep l aced.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide On- s ite upgr a des to eit h er busi n ess - day f our hou r suppor t or 24X7 f ou r hour suppor t can be pu rchas ed th rough HP.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.10.1 MIB Support The HP ProCurve Rout in g S w itch 93 04M / 9308M suppor ts th e f ollo win g standard M IBs: • MIB- II (RFC 1213 ) .
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 2.11 Some 9304M / 9308 M Routing Switch Max i mums Param e te r M ax imum Val u e D efau lt Val u e MAC ad dr esses 32,00 0 16,00 0 Po rt.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 3. Performance Testing Routing s w itch es are norm al l y performanc e tested und er a v ari ety o f conditions, a t Laye r 2 a nd Layer 3, for three ma in parameter s : th roughput /p acke t lo ss rate, conges tion control and la tency.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide For 100 Mbps env i ron m ent s, the crosspoint mat r ix backplan e can handle the t r affic at ful l wire speed. In this situatio n t he traffic is limited by th e t ota l th roughput of th e 100 Mbp s ports.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide latencies should be reported as L I FO. At any rat e, l ate ncy fi gures shoul d be l abeled as t o whet her th ey are LIFO o r FIFO. Occasionally sto r e-and-for w ard routing s wit ch lat e ncy will be repor ted on a FIFO bas i s.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 4. A ddi tio n al Informa t io n 4. 1 ProCurve Networ king Web Si te Additional informa t ion , inc l udin g the lates t data sheets, des.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 5. Pricin g A ll H P rout in g sw it ches ship with HP T opToo ls for Hu bs & Sw it ches.
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 6. Ap pendi x A : Per f ormance Figur es Thes e number s have been ge ne rate d b y H ewl ett-Packar d, using two Ixi a 16 00 t e st er s from Ixia Co mm unications .
H P P roCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Rev iewer’s Guide 6.1.3 Latenc y Test - Unicast Traffic – Packets Wi thin the Modules 6.1.3. 1 Gigabit-S X por ts Port pairs acti ve : 64 Late nc y tes t le ngth: 10 seco nds Port-Pair La te nc y in micr os ec ( s) Packe t size (b yt es) 64 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518 A verage o f al l por ts 7.
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