D-Link DES-3326S manual Determining the Switch Stack Order, Switch Stack Order − First

DES-3326S Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

•The Master Switch can be chosen automatically. Switch software auto-detects the MAC address of each Switch in the stack. The Switch with the lowest value MAC address is elected to function as the Master. The remaining Switches are ordered according to the relative value of their respective MAC addresses (see the following example).

Determining the Switch Stack Order

Using the auto stacking mode, five MAC addresses appear in the order listed in the table below:

	Stack Order		MAC Address
	1(Master)			001122334451
2			001122334452
3		001122334453
4		001122334454
5		001122334455
6				Not in use

Table 5-1. Switch Stack Order − First

Now let us suppose you wish to add another Switch to this stack. The new Switch has a MAC address 001122334450. After rebooting all the Switches in the stack, the newly added Switch becomes the Master Switch. The new automatically determined stack order becomes:

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