FAQs

Q: What is the purpose of an InterConnect switch?
InterConnect switches, such as the 8100fl, are designed to provide high bandwidth, high availability, and high performance connectivity between Intelligent Edge devices.

Q: Does the 8100fl support PoE?
No, it does not support PoE.

Q: Are there new commands or any differences from other ProCurve products?
Yes, the ProCurve 8100fl switch uses a LAG command, typically configured on other ProCurve devices via the 'trunk' command. Read below for more information regarding the LAG command:

• LAG - Link Aggregation Group

• A link aggregation is a group of two or more physical ports that have been combined into a single logical port.
• Link aggregations allow administrators to increase bandwidth at congestion points in the network, eliminating potential traffic bottlenecks.
• Link aggregations perform load balancing , and load sharing across a number of ports. As flows are set up on the LAG, traffic is balanced across all egress ports in the combined link, balancing overall available bandwidth.
• Link aggregations also provide improved data link resiliency-if one link fails, its flows are distributed among the remaining links.
• Link aggregations can interoperate with other ProCurve switching platforms, as well as switches, routers, and servers from other vendors.

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Switch Fabric Module	LED	Color	State	Meaning
	Active	Green Green n/a	Flashing Solid Off	Negotiating active/backup switch fabric module(s) during boot sequence. Module is active - normal. Module is in back up mode.
	Status	n/a Green Green Yellow/ Orange	Off Flashing Solid Flashing	No power to the module. Module is powering up and downloading operating software. Module is in Service - normal. Self-test failure

1-Port 10G LR Module	LED	Color	State	Meaning
	Activity (Act)	Green Green Off	Flashing Solid Flashing	Transmitting data. Link is up; no data is being transmitted. When no connector is plugged into the port, the LED will flash approximately once every four seconds. This on/off cycle is a safety feature known as auto laser shutdown.
	Link	Green n/a	Solid Off	Link is up. No connector is plugged into port.
	Status	n/a Green Green Yellow/ Orange	Off Flashing Solid Flashing	No power to the module. Module is powering up and downloading operating software. Software image loaded successfully. Self-test failure

10-Port 100/1000 Base-T Module	LED	Color	State	Meaning
	Link (per-port)	Green Amber n/a	Solid Solid Off	Port is in 1000 Mbps mode. Port is in 100 Mbps mode. No connector is plugged into the port.
	Activity (per-port)	Green n/a	Solid Off	Transmitting data. No data is being transferred, and/or no connector is plugged into the port.
	Status	n/a Green Green Yellow/ Orange	Off Flashing Solid Flashing	No power to the module. Module is powering up and downloading operating software. Software image loaded successfully. Self-test failure

10-Port mini GBIC Module	LED	Color	State	Meaning
	Activity (per-port)	Green Green Off	Flashing Solid Flashing	Transmitting data. Link is up; no data is being transferred. When no connector is plugged into the port, the LED will flash approximately once every four seconds. This on/off cycle is a safety feature known as auto laser shutdown.
	Link (per-port)	Green n/a	Solid Off	Link is up. No connector is plugged into port.
	Status	n/a Green Green Yellow/ Orange	Off Flashing Solid Flashing	No power to the module. Module is powering up and downloading operating software. Software image loaded successfully. Self-test failure

1 Port-X2 10GbE Module	LED	Color	State	Meaning
	Link	Green Orange n/a	Solid Flashing Off	Link is up. Self-test failure or unsupported transceiver. See error log for details. No connector in plugged into the port.
	Activity (Act)	Green Green n/a	Flashing Solid Off	Transmitting data. Blink rate indicates traffic utilization of the port. Traffic exceeds 90% of link capacity. No connector is plugged into the port, or no traffic is being passed through the port.
	Link and Activity (both port LEDs together)	Orange/ Green/ Off	Solid Orange (0.5 secs), then Solid Green (1.5 secs), and then off	A transceiver has been correctly inserted into the transceiver port. After the insertion test, the LEDs will remain Off until a network cable is inserted into the transceiver and the LEDs follow their normal operational behavior.
	Status	n/a Green Green Amber	Off Flashing Solid Flashing	No power to the module. Module is powering up and downloading operating software. Software image loaded successfully. Self-test failure

2-Port 10Gbe Module	LED	Color	State	Meaning
	Activity (Act)	Green Green n/a	Flashing Solid Off	Transmitting data. Blink rate indicates traffic utilization of the port. Traffic exceeds 90% of link capacity. No connector is plugged into the port, or no traffic is being passed through the port.
	Link	Green Orange n/a	Solid Flashing Off	Link is up. Self test failure or unsupported transceiver. See error log for details. No connector is plugged into the port.
	Link and Activity (both port LEDs together)	Orange/ Green/ Off	Solid Orange (0.5 secs), then Solid Green (1.5 secs), and then off	A transceiver has been correctly inserted into the transceiver port. After the insertion test, the LEDs will remain Off until a network cable is inserted into the transceiver and the LEDs follow their normal operational behavior.
	Link, Activity and Status (all module LEDs together)	Orange/ Green/ Off	Solid Orange (0.5 secs), then Solid Green (1.5 secs), and then off	The module is receiving initial power due to being inserted into the slot, and/or due to the slot being enabled via the CLI.
	Status	n/a Green Green Yellow/Orange	Off Flashing Solid Flashing	No power to the module. Module is powering up and downloading operating software. Software image loaded successfully. Self-test failure

Q: Are any network cables provided?
No, ProCurve Networking by HP does not provide or sell cables to connect to interface modules.

Q: What 8100fl modules are not non-blocking?
The 2-port 10G X2 module is 2X oversubscribed. All other 8100fl modules are non-blocking.

Q: How many addresses can the routing table hold?
The 8100fl holds 100,000 IP addresses in its routing table.

Q: Does the 8100fl support access control lists?
Yes, hardware-based, the 8100fl supports access control lists at wire-speed.

Q: Does the 8100fl support port mirroring?
Yes, the ProCurve Switch 8100fl enables traffic on a port to be simultaneously sent to a network analyzer for monitoring. Read additional port mirroring information below:

• Port mirroring can only be done in incoming traffic.
• The increase in traffic effectively cuts the bandwidth of the port being mirrored in half.
  • If the link is over ~60% utilized (~6 Gbps), we can expect to see reduction in the throughput on that 10 Gig port. Lets say the link is 100% utilized - in this case, we would see around 4 Gbps of traffic dropped at the ingress card.
  • Incoming traffic that is dropped at the ingress port is not mirrored.
• You can mirror a 10G target port to a 1G monitor port, but traffic volume greater than the monitor port can handle is dumped.
• ProCurve recommends that you do not mirror a target port to a monitor port on the same line card.
• Only one port can be mirrored in the chassis at any given time
• There can only be one 'monitor' port in the chassis at any given time - i.e, traffic can only be mirrored to one port in the current release.
• Mirroring traffic from a LAG is not supported.
• Mirroring traffic to a LAG is not supported.

Q: Does the 8100fl support Jumbo frames?
Yes, Jumbo frames are supported. The 8100fl allows high-performance remote backup and disaster-recovery services on both 1-Port 10G and Gig modules.(up to 4 ports per module on Gigabit modules)

Q: Does the 8100fl support Multiple Spanning Tree?
Yes, (802.1s) Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) is supported. It provides efficient high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple coincident spanning trees; includes backward compatibility with Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D) and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w).

Q: Does the 8100fl support Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)?
Yes, VRRP is supported. Up to 15 instances can be configured per IP interface (port, VLAN or LAG)

Q: Does the 8100fl support Port trunking?
Yes, for higher switch-to-switch throughput and link-level redundancy, with support for standards-based link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad). The 8100fl switch supports up to 80 link aggregation groups (LAGs), each with up to 8 links (ports) per LAG; link aggregations across modules are also supported.

Q: Does the 8100fl support multicast snooping?
Yes, the ProCurve Switch 8100fl supports multicast snooping and data driven IGMP v2, v3 which automatically prevents flooding of IP Multicast traffic.

Q: Does the 8100fl support layer 3 standards based routing protocols?
Yes, the ProCurve Switch 8100fl supports routing IP at media speed, including support for static routes, RIP, RIPv2, and OSPF with ECMP.

Q: Does the 8100fl support hot swapping of modules?
Yes, hot swapping of modules and optics are both supported.

Q: Does the 8100fl support rate limiting?
Yes, only on the 2-port 10G X2 module for inbound traffic. Rate-limiting only applies to user traffic and not to control frames. The following types of control frames and protocols are not subject to rate-limiting: BPDU; OSPF; all routers; designated router; LACP; RIPv2; PIM; VRRP; System MAC.

Q: Does the 8100fl support QoS (Quality of Service)?
Yes, the 8100fl switch supports real-time traffic classification into 11 traffic classes mapped to 5 queues and up to 3 levels of RED (Random Early Detection) drop precedence, providing rich QOS capabilities.

Q: Does the 8100fl support PIM Dense Mode (PIM-DM)?
Version 2.5 software (available Spring 2007) supports Multicast routing PIM Dense mode which allows for fast, efficient layer 3 multicasting in routed networks.

Q: Does the 8100fl support configurations that guarantee minimum bandwidth per-port?
Yes, the 8100fl supports per-port, per queue guaranteed minimums that allow traffic to receive the guaranteed minimum bandwidth during times of congestion.

Q: How many power supplies are required for the 8108fl and 8116fl switches to be fully redundant?
The Switch 8108fl requires one power supply to operate a fully-populated chassis-an optional second power supply provides for redundancy. For the Switch 8116fl, two power supplies are required to operate a fully-populated chassis-an optional third power supply provides for N+1 redundancy.

Q: Do the ProCurve Series 8100fl switches support a redundant management module in case the primary management module fails?
Yes, each chassis supports 2 management modules, a primary and secondary in case of failure.

Q: When my primary management module fails do I need to copy the configuration to secondary management module?
No, in normal operation, whenever changes are made to the primary management module's startup configuration file, the changes are copied to the redundant management module's configuration file. In this way, if the primary management module fails, the secondary module has the configuration information necessary to take over as the primary.

Q: Does the 8100fl support a redundant switch fabric?
Yes, the ProCurve Series 8100fl switches support two switch fabric modules in each chassis. The switch fabric modules are not interchangeable between the 8108fl and the 8116fl.

Q: How long does it take to switch from primary switch fabric to secondary?
The system will switch to a new fabric in 0.2 seconds, providing rapid automatic active-standby module redundancy.

Q: Does the 8100fl support Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)?
Yes, VRRP is supported.

Q: Does the 8100fl support hot swapping of modules?
Yes, hot swapping of modules and optics are both supported.

Q: Does the 8100fl support access control lists?
Yes, hardware based, the 8100fl supports access control list at wire-speed.

Q: Does the 8100fl support VLANs and tagging?
Yes, the ProCurve Switch 8100fl supports complete 802.1Q (1,024 active VLANs across 4,096 VLAN IDs) and 180 routable VLAN interfaces.

Q: Does the 8100fl support SSHv2?
Yes, the switch supports Secure Shell (SSHv2) which encrypts all transmitted data for secure remote access of IP networks via the CLI.

Q: Does the 8100fl support switch management logon security?
Yes, the switch can be configured for either RADIUS or TACACS+ authentication for secure logon via the CLI.

Q: Does the 8100fl provide protection from denial of services attacks?
Yes, the ProCurve Series 8100fl switches are designed with processor self-protection architecture that defends the system against denial of service attacks.

Q: How many administrative Privilege levels are there on the 8100fl?
The switch supports 2 distinct access levels.

• Level 0 places users at the Exec mode and limits their access to the commands at this level.
• Level 15 places users at the privileged Exec mode and allows them full access to the CLI commands.