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

[Jonathan Charles]

Yeah, I have found they are kind of hit or miss (mostly miss), if you
are deploying JUST C500Es in a small remote office, they are ok... but
try to connect em to an enterprise switched network with 6500s and
3750s and they choke and die.

It would probably be worth it if they were $99... but they are like
$1400 for these turd-fests...



Jonathan

On Dec 13, 2007 9:16 AM, Kelemen Zoltan <keli at carocomp.ro> wrote:
> 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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