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204 | Stacking<br />

MAC Addressing<br />

All port interfaces in the stack use the MAC address of the management interface on the master switch.<br />

The MAC address of the chassis in which the master Aggregator is installed is used as the stack MAC<br />

address.<br />

The stack continues to use the master’s chassis MAC address even after a failover. The MAC address is not<br />

refreshed until the stack is reloaded and a different unit becomes the stack master.<br />

Stacking LAG<br />

When you use multiple links between stack units, FTOS automatically bundles them in a stacking link<br />

aggregation group (LAG) to provide aggregated throughput and redundancy. The stacking LAG is<br />

established automatically and transparently by FTOS (without user configuration) after peering is detected<br />

and behaves as follows:<br />

• The stacking LAG dynamically aggregates; it can lose link members or gain new links.<br />

• Shortest path selection inside the stack: if multiple paths exist between two units in the stack, the<br />

shortest path is used.<br />

Stacking VLANs<br />

When you configure an Aggregator to operate in stacking mode (Configuring and Bringing Up a Stack),<br />

VLANs are reconfigured as follows:<br />

• If an Aggregator port belonged to all 4094 VLANs in standalone mode (default), all VLAN<br />

membership is removed and the port is assigned only to default VLAN 1. You must configure<br />

additional VLAN membership as necessary.<br />

• If you had manually configured an Aggregator port to belong to one or more VLANs (non-default) in<br />

standalone mode, the VLAN configuration is retained in stacking mode only on the master switch.<br />

When you reconfigure an Aggregator from stacking to standalone mode:<br />

• Aggregator ports that you manually configured for VLAN membership in stacking mode retain their<br />

VLAN configuration in standalone mode.<br />

• To restore the default auto-VLAN mode of operation (in which all ports are members of all 4094<br />

VLANs) on a port, enter the auto vlan command; for example:<br />

FTOS(conf)# interface tengigabitethernet 0/2<br />

FTOS(conf-if-te-0/2)# auto vlan

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