Allied Telesis X610-24TS-POE+, X610-48TS-POE+ Common Stack Configuration, Stack Management VLAN

x610 Series Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet Switches Installation Guide

Note

New switches are shipped with a Stack Member-ID of 1 and a priority of 128. If four such switches are created as a stack, the switch with the lowest MAC address will be selected to be the stack master (because all priority settings are 128). The remaining three stack member devices will then reboot and automatically be assigned ID values of between 2 and 4. The stack master does not reboot and retains its Stack Member-ID of 1.

For more information about the stack master refer to the Stacking Introduction and Stacking Commands chapters in the AlliedWare Plus Operating System Software Reference from www.alliedtelesis.com.

Common Stack Configuration

Once the switches have configured themselves into a VCStack, they all share the same configuration information and startup scripts.

Stack Management VLAN

Managing the stack is the same as managing an individual switch. You can connect to the asynchronous console port of any stack member, or you can set an IP address on a network VLAN (for example, VLAN 1) and use SSH or Telnet for remote access.

As the switches form themselves into a stack, each switch creates a common stack management VLAN and a management IP address. Both the VLAN ID and the IP address are internal entities that are used between the stacked switches, via the VCStack stacking module interfaces, and therefore do not appear on the user network.

Initially the stack assigns the default VLAN tag ID of 4094 to the management VLAN, and assigns an IP address from the subnet 192.168.255.0 / 28 to this VLAN as the management IP address. Once the stack has formed, you can change both these settings.

For more information about stack management refer to the Stacking Introduction and Stacking Commands chapters in the AlliedWare Plus Operating System Software Reference from www.alliedtelesis.com.

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