Desktop
Apply this role to ports that are connected to desktop devices, such as desktop PCs, workstations, notebook PCs, and other client-based hosts. [показать]
The Smartport role Switch automatically enables 802.1Q trunking on the port. If a remote switch does not support 802.1Q trunking or the trunking is manually turned off, the spanning tree state of the port on the remote switch goes to blocking for type inconsistency. If the remote switch is the root bridge, the switch port does not go to blocking mode. In this case, the switch port trunk status is ON at both ends of the switches, but there is not any communication between the switches through these ports. There are no diagnostic messages displayed on the Catalyst Express 500 device.
I thought the CE500 was at last a cost effective tool for the POE enterprise requirements from Cisco. Turns out....
1: There's no CLI
2: GUI only
3: No Telnet
4: No config that can be saved and reloaded after you've completely messed the system up.
5: No hardware reset button (Repower, push this button till that flashes, release that btn, etc.)
6: Worst of All.....the smartport concept so highly touted by cisco is a disaster in the enterprise environment. Connect yr port to another small switch because you may have several other items you would like to connect to, and the CE500 in some instances will allow only one IP address per port. Is this written anywhere in documentation? Not that I can find. How's a user supposed to know this? How's the administrator supposed to know this. I can't tell you how many hours of time this has wasted in my company trying to figure out what was wrong.