Procurve Lineup Routing Confusion

SKiTLz

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So I've attempted to contact HP pre-sales (we are an HP partner) and after 5 idiots that don't know their products, they transferred me to another team which turned out to be fucking CDW in the wrong country. Pretty typical of my experience with HP if you ever need to ask a question more technical than "what is a computer".

I'm trying to determine what switches in the Procurve lineup will do Inter-VLAN routing on the same switch. Assume a basic 1 switch network.

I've determined that Procurve "Layer 3 Lite" will do static routing but not dynamic routing. So I would assume their Layer 2 switches do absolutely no routing. However I have a 2520 in front of me that HP claims is Layer 2 only yet I can route between VLAN's on that switch.

So where is the designation? What switches in their lineup can do just plain old Inter-VLAN routing for directly connected networks and what can't? Will their bottom of the barrel 1810-24G do Inter-VLAN routing?
 
The 2510 and higher models can do it.

Its bundled under the feature labled : GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
 
Any of their L3 switches with CLI will do inter vlan routing. IIRC the most basic gigabit L3 they have is the 2910-al.
 
Clearly I'm not the only one confused as the only person in this thread that got what I was asking is Mackintire. Thanks mate.

I know a L3 switch will route. That wasn't the question. HP has switches they don't designate as L3 that will still do Inter-VLAN routing.

Knowing it is bundled under the feature "GARP VLAN Registration Protocol" is exactly what I needed to know.
 
The only way I've seen GVRP implemented was to dynamically add VLANs to neighboring switches. I wasn't aware that on Procurve switches they also allow inter-vlan routing as part of this protocol. Granted, I don't use any HP equipment for routing anyway.

Good information!
 
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