HP Procurve 3800 VLAN's from scratch.

[jakeys1999]

Good day all,

I am here after many days trying to understand and configure VLANS with the Pocurve 3800-48G.  I have a total of four 3800g-48G switches on a 192.168.4.0/24, default gateway of 192.168.4.1. For all intensive purposes I will just be configuring two switches for now with one VLAN(11), port 25 is the trunk port between the two switches.

I have configured  port 48 Untagged VLAN 11 on switch 4 along with port 48 VLAN 11.

Configured a static ip for two laptops on port 48 switch 3 and 4 I can ping each other.  but i  am unable to ping the 192.168.4.0/24 network.   Im so confused now.....  PLease let me know if I need to provide any more info.

My goal for now is to be able ot route traffice between the differnet switches and VLAN1 and 11.

Once I have a complete understanding i will create serparate VLANS for PC's Phones, Printers, with the ability for the pcs' to pull dhcp from the dhcp server at 192.168.4.32.

I have also attached a PDF  with a basic diagram. 

Thank you in advance

Switch 3 Config

Running configuration:

; J9576A Configuration Editor; Created on release #KA.15.16.0008
; Ver #06:7c.fd.ff.ff.3f.ef:57

hostname "HP DATA SWITCH-3"
module 1 type j9576y
module 2 type j9576x
trunk 25 trk1 trunk
sntp broadcast
time timezone -5
ip default-gateway 11.0.0.1
ip timep manual 192.168.4.31
ip routing
interface 21
   speed-duplex 100-full
   exit
interface 25
   name "Trunk1"
   exit
interface 32
   lacp active
   name "ETH-10"
   exit
interface 44
   lacp active
   name "ETH-10"
   exit
snmp-server community "public" unrestricted
oobm
   ip address dhcp-bootp
   exit
vlan 1
   name "DEFAULT_VLAN"
   untagged 1-24,26-52,Trk1
   ip address 192.168.4.202 255.255.255.0
   exit
vlan 11
   name "VLAN 11"
   tagged Trk1
   ip address 11.0.0.2 255.255.255.0
   ip helper-address 192.168.4.32
   exit
spanning-tree Trk1 priority 4

SWITCH 4 Config

hostname "HP Data Switch 4"
module 1 type j9576y
module 2 type j9576x
trunk 25 trk1 trunk
ip default-gateway 192.168.4.1
ip routing
interface 25
   name "Trunk-1"
   exit
snmp-server community "public" unrestricted
oobm
   ip address dhcp-bootp
   exit
router rip
   redistribute connected
   exit
vlan 1
   name "DEFAULT_VLAN"
   no untagged 18,48
   untagged 1-17,19-24,26-47,49-52,Trk1
   ip address 192.168.4.213 255.255.255.0
   exit
vlan 11
   name "VLAN 11"
   untagged 18,48
   tagged Trk1
   ip address 11.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
   ip helper-address 192.168.4.32
   exit
spanning-tree Trk1 priority 4

[Vince-Whirlwind]

I think your configuration is confused: you have 2 switches configured as Layer3 switches, but you are spanning VLAN 11 across them.

Your basic issue is:

 - both switches are routing in VLAN1

 - both switches are using the same subnet in VLAN1

 - VLAN1 is not trunked between the 2 switches

Additionally

 - both switches are routing for VLAN11

 - hosts on VLAN11 (presumably) don't have 2 default gateways, so a host on VLAN11 on one switch cannot find VLAN1 on both switches

 - you've used your Cisco hat to configure "trunk" on interface 25 - in Procurve-world, "trunk"=link aggregation and has nothing to do with VLANs.

If I were you I would do one of three things:

 - stack the 2 switches together to form a single virtual switch

or

 - decide which switch will do your routing and remove routing from the other

or

 - decide to use both switches as routers, so remove VLAN1 & VLAN11 from one of them, create two different VLANs on it, and create a 3rd VLAN on both switches to perform point-to-point connection between them, configure routes on each switch pointing to the other switch for the remote subnets.