RSTP to 4000M

[Mika Harkonen]

Is it possible to get Rapid spanning tree feature to Procurve 4000M?

[Arimo Laine_2]

Hi.

Sorry, but no.

Arimo

[Jerome Henry]

To complete Arimo (welcome back !), you can get here all docs about your 4000M :

http://www.hp.com/rnd/support/manuals/8000_4000_2424.htm

RGDS

J

[Arimo Laine_2]

Thanks J :-)

~A~

[OLARU Dan]

1. Maybe they will in a new firmware revision. ~A~, ~J~: maybe we should push HP to release a new revision - I guess there is a huge number of 4000Ms installed and they should continue to support these machines.

2. Be careful with STP, though: HP network printers will be much slower - due to their powersave-on feature which shuts down the link to the SWT running STP. When a user will print, STP will put the newly-awaken printer's port from Disabled in Bloking, Listening, Learing and only then in Forwarding, and this process lasts ~50 seconds with the default STP parameters. So users will see a ~1 minute delay if they print at higher than 15 minutes intervals - default timer on most HP printers for entering powersave-on mode.

Cheers,
Dan