[cisco-voip] Cat 500 Express switches... trunking

[Kelemen Zoltan]

Somebody from Cisco should just acknowledge it once and for all: "they 
just suck" :P (the Cat500 series, that is)

Remember people, "it's a feature, not a bug" :D

I try to stay away from those things as far as I can :)

Zoltan

Jonathan Charles wrote:
> I told the customer to get 8-port 3560s, they only need a few more POE
> ports in each closet, and they don't have much cash...
>
> This was actually kind of shocking, the switch shows up as a CDP
> neighbor, but it just won't play nice... I mean it just doesn't act
> like a switch does... we have a Dot1Q trunk, same native vlan and we
> just can't ping anything...
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 3:18 AM, David Van Herck (Europe)
> <David.VanHerck at eu.didata.com> wrote:
>   
>> Indeed, the Express isn't that good at all: we installed it also at a
>> customer site, but ran into problems with the trunked uplinks. The
>> workaround was buying Catalyst 2940 or Catalyst 2960 which aren't that
>> expensive as 3560 or 3750.
>>
>> Greets,
>> David
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan
>> Charles
>> Sent: woensdag 12 december 2007 23:09
>> To: Cisco Voip Mailing list
>> Subject: [cisco-voip] Cat 500 Express switches... trunking
>>
>> I have a cust who has a large enterprise, dual 6509s in the core, mix
>> of 3500XLs, 3550s, 2950s and 3750s around the perimeter.
>>
>> Cust just bought some Cat500E switches and they do not appear to trunk
>> consistently.
>>
>> Is this a known bug, or do the switches just suck?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
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