I’m still getting used to the Aruba CX switches, as they’re definitely humbling me despite me not being a network “expert” per se. One interesting battle I had recently was trying to get the “PC Ports” on some Mitel IP phones to work. In my case I’m messing with Mitel 5xxx and 6xxx series phones, and while the phones themselves work fine, and the PC ports are enabled, they just…don’t do anything!
The PC ports on these phones are basically a daisy-chain port; they allow an IP phone and a computer to share a single network drop by basically daisy-chaining the computer through the phone.
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