[nylug-talk] switch stacking?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:12:26PM -0400, Bob Mariotti wrote:
> C Thala wrote:
> >Pardon my ignorance, but what does it mean to "stack switches" (the Cisco
> >3750 sort) to create a stack?
> 
> It is another way to state that multiple switches are "Stacked" 
> together, connected with a media connecting cable (gbic, fiber or other) 
> and can be referenced as a single switch with more ports.  If you were 
> to stach two 48 port switches you'd have a 96 port, three switches would 
> yield 144, etc.
> 
> Various manufacturers offer management software that will allow you to 
> access/manage these "stacks" as one unit.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

Bingo, bob gets the lollipop. The cisco 3750's have a special
high-pin-count cable (two ports on each, for redundancy IIRC) that you
use to link the switches. You can then pretend that they're all one
switch.

-Peter

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