Routing Between Cisco and HP Switches

[zekebashi]

Hello, 

I'm working on a projects where the the current network has HP Porcurve switches at 13 sites including headquarters. I will be replacing the HP Procurve switches at headquarters(1 C4500x Core, 1 C4500x Dist, and 7 C3560-48PDs). The Edge HP Procure switches at the remote sites will be linked to the Core C4500X using L3 interfaces.  I have never connected HP Procurve to Cisco switches and I need to know how routing works between Cisco and Procurve.

The C4500x will have OSPF enabled and all the 13 Procurve switches will be linked to it. I was wondering if someone could explain to me how routing works or what needs to be done on both the C4500X and Procurve switches in order to configure OSPF properly.

Thanks in advance and much appreciated.

Best, ~zK    

[Richard Bradfield]

I don't know if this youtube link is relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zPW6S2-qOc

HTH

Richard.

[zekebashi]

Thanks, Richard.  The video isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I'm looking for info related to how to route between Cisco using one of the IGPs; such as OSPF,  and HP Procurve. 

Thanks, ~zK 

[Richard Bradfield]

I must admit I didn't look at the full video, but as OSPF is a standard protocol, then there is no reason for HP and Cisco not to talk to each other.

[Masoud Pourshabanian]

Hello,

HP configuration is very similar to Cisco. OSPF is an open standard protocol so it is compatible. You might need to configure STP. MSTP is compatible between Cisco and HP. STP configuration is also very similar. I have provided link for that as well.

Take a look at page 29 of this link for OSPF concept and configuration.

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/A-C13-Adv_Routing.pdf

Also other sources.

http://www.hp.com/rnd/support/config_examples/5300xl_ospf_singlearea.pdf

http://www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02571903.pdf

http://www.hp.com/rnd/support/config_examples/5300xl_portbase.pdf

Hope it helps,

Masoud