Cisco Catalyst Gigabit "Uplink" Ports, Uplink Only?

[stidrvr]

Hey all, Im a relatively new user to the Cisco game. Ive been piecing together a home lab. Ive noticed that the Gigabit ports are just referred to a standard ports just like the fa0/xx ports. Could these ports be used for two computers? Say I wanted to use the GB interfaces with two computers to achieve a poor mans Cisco Gigabit switch, is this possible? I only need two ports, my server and my desktop. Transfering over 10/100 is painfully slow. I dont care about stacking capabilities or through put from switch to switch, mainly just the two computers. Cisco has a 2950T the has 2 RJ45 gigabit ports, plus I need another 2950 anyway. Make sense?

 

[Jay_2]

Yes they should be fine to use as normal ports

 

[DlStreamnet]

It will work fine

With good quality newish hardware you should see up to 90MB/sec transfer roughly (depending on a lot of stuff)

 

[4fingerninja]

instead of fastethernet 0/xx its now gigabitethernet 0/xx

 

[ChRoNo16]

yeah they work fine for whatever, I have a 2950 ei 48 (Older) and I use the gig for servers