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the 5406zl was pretty power efficient in it's day and as I recall the v2 modules are more so. There are hard rules on how many PoE blades you can enable per PSU (depending on PSU) redundancy ...

Right now the 5406zl acts as the default gateway for the LAN segment and has a default route for 0.0.0.0 of the PA-500's internal IP. Long term we want/need to start looking at VLAN'ing the LAN ...

An eight-slot modular switch such as the ProCurve 5406zl we tested (or the even larger ProCurve 8212zl) most likely will handle hundreds or thousands of flows in an enterprise networks.

We tested the TMS in a ProCurve 5406zl chassis. Multipurpose security devices are nothing new, but it’s unusual to see all three functions in one switch module. For example, Cisco’s ASA 5500 ...