BLADE OS™ Application Guide HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for c-Class BladeSystem Version 5.1 Advanced Functionality Software

Table Of Contents
BLADE OS 5.1 Application Guide
BMD00113, September 2009 Contents 5
Chapter 2: Ports and Trunking 65
Ports on the Switch
66
Port Trunk Groups
67
Statistical Load Distribution
68
Built-In Fault Tolerance
68
Before You Configure Static Trunks
68
Trunk Group Configuration Rules
69
Port Trunking Example
70
Configurable Trunk Hash Algorithm
72
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
73
Chapter 3: Port-Based Network Access Control
77
Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN
78
EAPoL Authentication Process
79
EAPoL Message Exchange
80
EAPoL Port States
81
Guest VLAN
81
Supported RADIUS Attributes
82
EAPoL Configuration Guidelines
84
Port-Based Traffic Control
85
Chapter 4: VLANs
87
VLANs Overview
87
VLANs and Port VLAN ID Numbers
88
VLAN Tagging
90
VLANs and IP interfaces
93
VLAN Topologies and Design Considerations
94
VLAN Configuration Rules
94
Multiple VLANs with Tagging Adapters
95
Protocol-Based VLANs
101
Port-Based vs. Protocol-Based VLANs
102
PVLAN Priority Levels
102
PVLAN Tagging
102
PVLAN Configuration Guidelines
103
Configuring PVLANs
103
Private VLANs
106
Private VLAN Ports
106
Private VLANs Configuration Guidelines
107
Private VLANs Configuration Example
107
FDB Static Entries
108