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Cisco vs HP vs Dell CLI - VLAN Configuration

Daniel Kuchenski

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This post continues my series on the differences between these three manufacturers and how they implement L2 and L3 VLANs.

Scenario 1: Create a Layer 2 VLAN

Cisco IOS:

vlan 10

HP Procurve:

vlan 10

Dell Powerconnect:

vlan database
vlan 10

Scenario 2: Create a Layer 3 VLAN (that's routable)

Cisco IOS:

interface vlan 10
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

HP Procurve:

vlan 10
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

Dell Powerconnect:

interface vlan 10
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
routing

The biggest difference between all three manufacturers is that HP does not implement a separate VLAN interface for L3 configuration. Cisco and Dell both require you to go into interface vlan mode before configuring L3 information (IP addressing). Dell also requires the routing keyword to actually route that VLAN.

All three manufacturers do require you to input the command ip routing if you want the switch to route packets