ProCurve 5300xl Specifications download pdf (Page 12)

Service and Support

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Lifetime warranty (for as long as you own the product) with next business day advanced

replacement (available in most countries)

• Free lifetime software updates

• Free telephone support during business hours.

• Optional fee-based services, such as upgrading your warranty to on-site response, or 24X7

phone support.

High Availability

IP Routing

IP routing on the ProCurve 5300xl Switch Series is done in the ASIC at wire speed by the user

defining VLANs and then specifying routing between them. Some of the IP services available

are:

• Routing Services

• RIP (version 1, version 1 compatible version 2, and version 2)

o Split Horizon and Poison Reverse supported

o Redistribution - importing of static and connected routes into the RIP route

table. Restrict command available to prevent route advertising in and/or out

of any port. Useful for security (routed sections of the network can be made

invisible to the rest of the network.)

o Up to 128 routed interfaces. Since RIP sends out its full routing table on

each routed interface once every 30 seconds, care should be taken to limit

the number of interfaces used for larger routed environments. If the number

of routes needed is greater than 1,000 with a higher number of routed

interfaces, for instance, greater than 32, then OSPF should be considered as

the routing protocol of choice, as it is more efficient in handling larger

routed environments.

• OSPFv2 (RFC 1583 (default) and 2328 compliant)

o Redistribution – importing of static and connected routes into the OSPF

route table. Restrict command available to prevent route advertising in

and/or out of any port. Useful for security (routed sections of the network

can be made invisible to the rest of the network.)

o OSPF traps (RFC 1850)

o OSPF Route Authentication – uses plain text passwords or MD5 encryption.

The MD5 keys are time sensitive – the 5300 must have the correct

time/date set, particularly after a reboot. It is recommended that when

using OSPF route authentication TimeP or SNTP (time setting protocols) be

used to assure a proper time/date setting, particularly on reboot caused by

a power failure.

• OSPF Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) – If different subnet destinations in an OSPF

network are reachable through a set of equal-cost next-hop routes, the router

chooses the same next-hop route for traffic to all of these destinations. When OSPF

ECMP is enabled, the 5300xl series switches allows load-sharing across redundant

links where the network offers two, three, or four equal-cost next-hop routes for

traffic to different subnets. (All traffic for different hosts in the same subnet goes

through the same next-hop router).

• 128 routing interfaces (interfaces that participate in the routing protocols) per

chassis

• Static IP routes: 512 maximum per chassis

• IRDP (ICMP Router Discovery Protocol) – advertises the IP addresses of the switch router

interfaces to the directly attached hosts. The receiving hosts could then interpret this

message to mean that the routing switch is its default gateway.

• UDP broadcast forwarding for applications that require clients to send limited UDP broadcast

to a specific UDP port. UDP broadcast are forwarding per-VLAN basis and allows up to 16

entries per VLAN (up to 256 server and/or subnet entries on the switch).

• DHCP relay – The ProCurve 5300xl Series Switches can operate as DHCP relay agents (RFC

2131 and 3046) to allow DHCP requests to be forwarded across routed interfaces to links

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