[c-nsp] Small customer premise switch?

[andrew2 at one.net]

Laurent Geyer wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Charles J. Boening <charlieb at cot.net> wrote:
> 
>> Not sure if it's even worth looking at, but how about something in
>> the CE500 line? 
>> 
>> Cisco Catalyst Express 500-24TT 24 port 10/100 Switch.  They're
>> pretty dumbed down compared to the "bigger" stuff but may work.
>> 
>> The 500-24TT is about $500 from CDW and $450 from Provantage.
> 
> 
> One of my co-workers ordered a couple because pricing was pretty
> attractive. 
> After playing around with them though I promptly returned them after
> realizing following: 
> 
> - 802.1Q trunking required a firmware upgrade
> - No CLI configuration, GUI only
> - VTP only in transparent mode
> 
> If neither of those three items mentioned are show stoppers then the
> Cisco Express line switches are a pretty good deal. 

They also seem to support only a very small subset of Cisco's typical MIB.
I made the mistake of thinking they'd be great when I needed a pair of
cheapo gigabit switches with SFP slots.  They're fine for what they do, I
guess, just don't expect them to really be "Cisco" switches.  Seems to me
you can get the same functionality from other vendors for much much less.

Andrew