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Vlans on HP procurve Switches

Hi everyone!

I am trying to set up a Vlan between 6 HP procurve switches: 2x 2800 series 4x 3500 series and 2x 5200 series. All the switches are located in the same building (its an arena) and they are connected together by fiber. My question is does trunking have to be enabled on the fiber connections back to the main switch for a Vlan to work correctly?

Thanks for the help in advance,

Will Jones

P.S. I have never programed a switch before in my life, but I do have alot of other IT in my background, so try to be easy with me in the technical jargon :D

jburgaard

In HP terms you make the link between the switches by (IEEE 802.1Q-)'TAGGING' the ports on our (fiber-)ports with the relevant vlans.
Tagging is needed to mix the packets from more vlans to one stream in fiber.
(In the other end tagging again is stripped off the packets in the mixed stream on way back to the vlans accessports)

In HP lingo 'trunk' is a term used for aggregation of more fiberpairs to one logical connection between 2 sw's.
Trunk's are not needed, but could be otherwise usefull (capacity, failover).
I f you use a trunk, the trunk could carry vlans, same way as a sigle fiberpair.

HTH

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Willie2232

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OK I will toss some more info your way.

First off i was mistaken the 2x 5200 are actualy 5406zl. Second the main goal here is to be able to set up a Vlan for wifi acces points. We want to create a free wifi zone through out the arena, but we dont want to create a security risk. we have decided to use port 24 ( as its not being used on any switch) for Wifi access points. We only have 3 Dlink 3200 access point now but want to make it easy to expand in the future by reserving the port now on all the switches. We have one 5406 in the main telco room with a fortigate router. Thats the main one. All other switches are connected to this one via fiber. Here is a config off the main switch (code). looks like i am on the right track. just not sure If i have to add the fiber ports to the same Vlan to get the data back to the main switch as well. And if i do add the fiber ports to VLAN 100 will it impact the people connected to that switch on all the other ports. as thats the only fiber link back to the fortigate?

; J9021A Configuration Editor; Created on release #N.11.06
 
hostname "ProCurve Switch 2810-24G" 
snmp-server location "practice ice" 
interface 24 
   name "wifi" 
exit
snmp-server community "public" Unrestricted 
vlan 1 
   name "DEFAULT_VLAN" 
   untagged 1-24 
   ip address dhcp-bootp 
   exit 
vlan 100 
   name "wifi" 
   tagged 24 
   exit 
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