Cisco Stack with 3548 and 3524 XL

[harrisgirls]

Hello,

I have just got 2 of these switches, plugged the gigastack modules in to each switch and then plugged in the gigastack cable between the switches in point-to-point mode.

Do I have todo anything else with the switches to configure in a stack or is that it?

How do I know which is the master and slave?

[IAN WHITMORE]

There is no master/slave relationship in these old switches iirc. Gigastack in these switches is just cheaper than using gbic interfaces and fibre, and allows you to create a completely redundant design using only one of the two ports. Its not really a stack like in the 3750's which you might have seen a lot about on this forum.

Bear in mind though that they function a half dupex in a completely redundant design.

I took them all out of our network and put gbics and fibre in to get full duplex conectivity.

Regards,

Ian

[harrisgirls]

Thank you for your help.

Regards to setting the switches up, do I just configure them with seperate IP Addresses, as I know in stacks you have IP Address for stacks.

[IAN WHITMORE · Accepted solution]

Yes, each switch will have it's own IP.

Regards,

Ian

[Leo Laohoo]

3500XL + GigaStacking GBIC =Clustering Switches