Cisco cbs350 help

[sdaehn]

Good afternoon,

'm using 2 CBS350 48 port switches on an isolated network. currently, I have one of them acting as a dhcp server. I also have a couple vlans setup. currently i have the "main " switch set to 192.168.50.254, 192.168.168.254 on the ipv4 interfaces and I have ipv4 routing enabled. it works when plugged into that switch to route between the vlans but not whilst plugged into the secondary. The secondary is set the same except the ipv4 interfaces are .253. would disabling the ipv4 routing on the secondary be the best way to go? also, can i do this without network disruptions? all devices have static addresses with the gateways pointed to the main. 

[pieterh]

that depends on how you want to position your secondary.
is it a backup router ? than you need to configure some routing HA protocol like HSRP
if not then you can use it with no SVI on the vlans and routing disabled (and only a single ip-address for management)

in that case the main switch is the only router and the secondary just Layer-2 with a vlan trunk connecting the two switches