Nortel Networks 2500 Series - Manual (Page 45)

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Licensing fundamentals
This section provides conceptual information about licensing. Review this
section before you create a switch stack using stand-alone units.
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Stack licensing
This section describes stack licensing requirements for Nortel Ethernet
Routing Switch 2500 series stand-alone switches.
You can stack multiple switches together to create a single, virtual switch
that you can manage as a single device. For more information about
switch stacking, see Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series System
Configuration (NN47215-500).
The types of Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 series switches are
• stack enabled
• stand-alone
You can identify stack enabled units through NNCLI, Web-based
management, and Device Manager—the system includes the text
Stack
Enabled in the switch description.
Stack enabled units do not require a software license to enable stacking
capability because the rear ports on stack enabled units are configured at
the factory to operate in Stacking Mode by default. You can set the rear
ports on stack enabled switches to Standalone Mode so that you can use
the switches as normal Ethernet ports to connect a server, host, or as
uplink ports, and to support the same configuration options that all front
panel ports support.
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series
Fundamentals
NN47215-102 01.01 Standard
27 October 2008
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