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Stacking Overview........................................................................................................................................................ 920
Stack Management Roles.......................................................................................................................................920
Stack Master Election..............................................................................................................................................921
Virtual IP....................................................................................................................................................................923
Failover Roles........................................................................................................................................................... 923
MAC Addressing on Stacks....................................................................................................................................923
Stacking LAG............................................................................................................................................................924
Supported Stacking Topologies..............................................................................................................................924
High Availability on Stacks......................................................................................................................................925
Management Access on Stacks............................................................................................................................ 926
Enabling Mixed-mode Stacking..............................................................................................................................927
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................927
Stacking Installation Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 927
Create a Stack..........................................................................................................................................................927
Add Units to an Existing Stack...............................................................................................................................932
Split a Stack..............................................................................................................................................................934
Stacking Conguration Tasks.......................................................................................................................................935
Assigning Unit Numbers to Units in an Stack...................................................................................................... 935
Creating a Virtual Stack Unit on a Stack.............................................................................................................. 935
Displaying Information about a Stack....................................................................................................................935
Inuencing Management Unit Selection on a Stack........................................................................................... 938
Managing Redundancy on a Stack........................................................................................................................939
Resetting a Unit on a Stack....................................................................................................................................939
Verify a Stack Conguration........................................................................................................................................ 939
Displaying the Status of Stacking Ports............................................................................................................... 940
Remove Units or Front End Ports from a Stack.........................................................................................................941
Removing a Unit from a Stack................................................................................................................................941
Removing Front End Port Stacking.......................................................................................................................942
Troubleshoot a Stack.....................................................................................................................................................942
Recover from Stack Link Flaps.............................................................................................................................. 943
Recover from a Card Problem State on a Stack..................................................................................................943
53 Storm Control..........................................................................................................................................945
Congure Storm Control.............................................................................................................................................. 945
Conguring Storm Control from INTERFACE Mode...........................................................................................945
Conguring Storm Control from CONFIGURATION Mode................................................................................946
54 Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)................................................................................................................. 947
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 947
Congure Spanning Tree.............................................................................................................................................. 948
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................948
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 948
Conguring Interfaces for Layer 2 Mode....................................................................................................................949
Enabling Spanning Tree Protocol Globally.................................................................................................................. 950
Adding an Interface to the Spanning Tree Group...................................................................................................... 952
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................952
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