Cisco SG500-28P Gigabit Stackable Managed Switch Reviewed

[wpns]

A couple of details about the above article:

The Cisco documentation is incredibly opaque and contradictory on their Sxn00-nn(P) switches, but AFAICT:

500 series switches support 802.3af (15W) and 802.3at (30W) Power Over Ethernet. [The 300 series switches only support 802.3af (15W) PoE.] The total PoE power budget is 180 watts, so somewhere between 6 ports at 30W each and 24 ports at 7.5W each.

Only the 24 'normal' ports support PoE on these switches, the combo ports do not have PoE.

Stacking seems to run at 5 gigabits using a SFP-H10BG-CU1M twinax copper ($100) cable, but maybe 10 gigabits with an optical SFP link? Or maybe only the SG500X supports 10G stacking on SFP? Again, documentation is difficult to parse...

While the (rebranded Linksys) products (I have some SRW224P and SRW224G4P boxes) claim to support all kinds of features, they are seriously broken in different ways. For instance, according to the SNMP, the SRW224G4P has 30 ports numbered 1 thru 28, and getting an SNMP block for all ports will give you garbage for 29 and 30. Firmware should not be outsourced to Elbonia.

And check prices on the day you want to buy, they seem to be dropping as time goes on. Google sez as low as $900...

 

[Unregistered]

Firstly thank you wpns for the purchase of the older SRW224P and SRW224G4P.

I am a Cisco SE positioning these switches into SMB and pretty proud of what the Cisco product management team have put together with the 100, 200, 300 and 500 series switches.

The newer 100,200,300 and 500 series switches are a complete refresh of the older Cisco SMB switch family that you have seen in the past.
New silicon, improved management and feature sets and hardly resemble the older linksys SB series switches in performance of functionality. This can be observed from the review.

On stacking, the SG500X series supports 10GbE stacking whilst the SG500 series supports 5GbE stacking. I must admit I was a wee bit confused by connectivity options, when I first saw the product earlier this year, until I downloaded the free 500 series Administration Guide and it detailed connectivity options graphically in a table.

 

[sandman77777]

Help with SG500-28 and pfSense

Hello all,

I am having difficulty configuring the Cisco SG500-28 switch with pfSense.

Here is the setup I am trying to configure.

Internet <-> pfSense <-> Cisco SG500-28 <-> PCs

On the pfSense I have WAN set to DHCP since I get the IP from the ISP. I have setup LAN with IP 10.10.1.1.

The Cisco SG500-28 has been switched to layer 3 mode. I have 3 VLANs on the switch. I decided to use x.x.x.254 as the switch VLAN interface address for each VLANs to keep things consistent.

So I have:

VLAN 1: (default on Cisco SG500-28)
Network: 10.10.1.0/24
Switch IP: 10.10.1.254

VLAN 2: Wired Data
Network: 10.10.2.0/24
Switch IP: 10.10.2.254

VLAN 3: WiFi
Network: 10.10.3.0/24
Switch IP: 10.10.3.254

I connected the pfSense on port 1 on the switch. I also plugged in 3 PCs in the switch on ports 4, 5, 6. I setup ports as following:

pfSense on port 1 as trunk with PVID of 1
PC1 on port 4 as trunk with PVID of 1
PC2 on port 5 as trunk with PVID of 2
PC3 on port 6 as trunk with PVID of 3

I manually setup the PCs as follows:
PC1: ip 10.10.1.100 with gateway 10.10.1.254
PC2: ip 10.10.2.100 with gateway 10.10.2.254
PC3: ip 10.10.3.100 with gateway 10.10.3.254

All 3 PCs can talk to each other but none of them can get to the internet.

Then I configured the pfSense as following. I created another gateway with the ip of 10.10.1.10 and called it LANGW. Then I created a static route of 10.10.2.0/24 using gateway LANGW. Then created another static route of 10.10.3.0/24 using gateway LANGW.

All 3 PCs can talk to each other and none of them can get to the internet including PC1 which is on VLAN1.

Please help. What am I doing wrong? What is not configured correctly?

Thanks.

 

[John Kotches]

Do you have vlan tagging set up one the PCs and the pfsense box?

If not they won't work.

Why VLANs on this small of an environment other than "I can"?

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