Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 17)

Starting a Management Session Guide
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Enhanced Stack All of the requirements for remote management of the switch are met in an
enhanced stack. Consequently, you do not have to perform any additional
configuration steps to prepare a switch for remote management if it is part
of an enhanced stack. For information on enhanced stacking, refer to the
AT-S63 Management Software Features Guide.
Here are the general steps for configuring the AT-9400 Switch as the
master switch of an enhanced stack:
1. Change the switch’s enhanced stack mode to master.
2. Create the common port-based or tagged VLAN that will interconnect
the switches of the enhanced stack. The Default_VLAN can be used
as the common VLAN.
3. Assign the switch an IP address and subnet mask by adding a routing
interface to the common VLAN.
4. If the remote management workstations are not members of the same
subnet as the switch, create a default gateway that defines the first hop
to reaching the workstations.
5. Designate the interface as the switch’s local interface so that the
switch monitors the subnet for the management packets from the slave
switches and the remote management workstations.
Here are the general steps for configuring a switch as a slave switch in an
enhanced stack:
1. Create the common VLAN on the switch.
2. Assign the switch an IP address and subnet mask by adding a routing
interface to the common VLAN. The IP address must be a member of
the same subnet as the interface on the master switch.
3. Designate the routing interface as the local interface on the switch.
(This step is not necessary if you are using the Default_VLAN as the
common VLAN.)
Notice that you do not have to set the enhanced stack mode on a slave
switch. This is because the default setting for a switch is slave. Notice also
that a default gateway is not necessary. Since an enhanced stack is
managed through the master switch, only that switch has to have a default
route, and only if the remote management workstations are not members
of the same subnet as the common VLAN of the stack. However, you can
still assign a default route to a slave switch if you believe you might need
to remotely manage the switch directly rather than through the enhanced
stacking feature.