Stacking Dell PowerConnect Switches: 8132, 8132F, 8164, 8164F
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copies of the stack configuration for the user’s knowledge. The actual stack information used by the
switch
is not
that which is stored in the startup configuration.
A
stack member
configuration is always present on stacking capable switches, so there always is a line
in the configuration that says
stack
and a second line that says
member
even if there are no devices
stacked. Since these are stack-capable devices, an un-stacked device is still considered a stack of one.
Here is an example configuration of a device that is
not
stacked.
console#
show run
!Current Configuration:
!System Description "PowerConnect 8164F, 5.0.0.0, Linux 2.6.27.47
!System Software Version 5.0.0.0
!Cut-through mode is configured as disabled
!
configure
slot 1/0 5 ! PowerConnect 8164F
slot 1/1 8 ! Dell 10GBase-T Card
stack
member 1 4 ! PCT8164F
exit
interface out-of-band
ip address 172.25.194.24 255.255.0.0 172.25.194.254
exit
interface vlan 1
exit
username "admin" password dec68e453164a2 privilege 15 encrypted
line telnet
enable authentication enableList
exit
snmp-server engineid local 800002a203001ec9ddad5b
exit
Notice there is only
one
member line in the configuration. If there were multiple members in the stack
then there would be multiple member lines in the configuration, such as:
stack
member 1 1 ! PCT8164F
member 2 1 ! PCT8164F
member 3 1 ! PCT8132F
Note:
A single stack member configuration is always present on stack-capable switches even if
they are not part of an actual stack. The single switch is considered a
stack of one
.
How a Master is selected
A Master is elected or re-elected based on the following considerations, in order:
1.
The switch is currently the Master.
2.
The switch has the higher MAC address.
