HP Procurve question...basic RIP routing

Factual Questions
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I’m currently trying to configure basic RIP routing on an HP Procurve 2910 and it’s giving me fits. I’m hoping someone here has configured this in the past and can puzzle out what I’m doing wrong here. It SHOULD be about as basic as it gets.

Here is what I’m trying to do…I have 2 VLANs (actually, a bunch more, but I’m keeping it simple) set up. VLAN 1 (the default) has an IP address of 192.168.0.20 /24. VLAN 10 has an IP address of 192.168.10.20 /24. I have ports 1-12 untagged on VLAN 1 and set to trunk group Trk1. I have ports 13-44 untagged on VLAN 10 and also set to trunk group Trk1. Also, I have ports 45-48 set to trunking using trunk group Trk1 as well (though it shouldn’t matter for this problem…just in case though).

All I’m trying to do is route between VLAN 1 and VLAN 10…and it’s not working. For routing I have the following configured on the switch: IP Routing is enabled. Router RIP is enabled. IP RIP is set to all on both VLANs (i.e. VLAN 1 ip rip 192.168.0.20, VLAN 10 ip rip 192.168.10.20). When I plug in a laptop to VLAN 1 I can ping both virtual interfaces (i.e. with a 192.168.0.X /24 address set on the laptop and plugged into VLAN 1 ports I can ping both 192.168.0.20 and 192.168.10.20, same if configured for VLAN 10 addressing). But…I can’t ping another directly connected device (i.e. another laptop or server) plugged into the other VLAN.

As far as I can tell from the documentation from HP (shitty as it is), it SHOULD all be working fine. I’ve configured this stuff dozens of time on a CISCO, and while the syntax is different (somewhat), on a CISCO system this stuff is almost a no brainer. I’ve got calls into HP, but so far no call back, so while I’m sitting here tearing out my hair I thought I’d ask here as well.

I’d appreciate the help, if possible.

-XT

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That doesn’t look like a valid address or a valid range. Do you mean that the range is 192.168.0.0 / 24 and the virtual gateway on the router has an IP address of 192.168.0.20?

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No, it’s a valid address. The ‘/24’ means it has a 24 bit mask (i.e. 255.255.255.0…3 octets of 8, ehe?). So, 192.168.0.0 is the network (the broadcast would be 192.168.0.255).

In this case the virtual address of the 192.168.0.0 network is 192.168.0.20 (the gateway address of the firewall, FWIW, is 192.168.0.1)…a perfectly valid address for a 24 bit mask system.

The problem seems to be that something is wrong with how I have RIP setup…I still haven’t been able to figure out what is going on unfortunately, but I suspect the problem might actually be some kind of firmware issue. That’s what the HP tech support guy seems to think anyway.

-XT