ProCurve 2610

[wij]

Could somebody tell me if this is possible using these switches:

1 Subnet, lots of VLANs.

I.e. all the ports have a machine on the end of them and I want to block communication between the ports on the switch. But at the same time I'd like each port to be able to get an IP from DHCP from a router attached to the switch and then access the internet via said router.

I'm assuming that as I don't need to route between any of the ports/Vlans I can do this at L2 and it should be fairly simple?

I think on Cisco this is called a Private VLAN? Do HP do this or is it one of those proprietary things you don't miss until you can't do it with another vendors hardware?

Not bought/specced these switches yet, but I'm tempted to use them as they are 1/3 of the cost of the Cisco to me, and my client are being very tight with the purse strings!

 

[wij]

Its for an exhibition / trade show type thing, lots of stands/booths from different exhibitors and companies etc. that need to be isolated from each other.

From what I'm reading from the HP manual for the switch it would appear it *is* possible.

Guess that at £300 I could probably just buy at 2610-24 and give it a go.

 

[wij]

Thanks chaps.

They also support source-port filtering which apparently allows only specified ports to communicate with each other.

Whether that will do what I want it to though I'm not quite so sure - wouldn't the router just pass information between say port1 > router > port2?

I'm open to suggestions if someone has a neater tidier way of doing this, but it has to be cheap as chips (or HP switches!).

 

[wij]

The router will be a 2800 of some description so it should all work, think thought what you have suggested is probably the easier way Iain