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Patreon Vid: Finally Stacking the Nortel BPS 2000s

🕑 Added 2024-12-27 04:07:17 +0000 UTC

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clabretro

yeah I think I was spoiled by the catalyst switches I stacked. the dual cable redundancy makes sense but I was surprised it was required even for setup!

John Bailey

Ugh, I thought I posted this comment when you posted the video, but apparently forgot. It's common to need two or more cables to stack switches. HP Enterprise switches running Comware require this. It's intended for more than 2 switches so that if one switch in the stack goes down, the rest of the switches can layer2 route around the failure and the stack still remain functional. Not all vendors require multiple cables for it though. In the HPE stack I have there are 5 switches. Switch 1 is connected to 2 and 5. Switch 2 is connected to 1 and 3, switch 3 is connected to 2 and 4, and switch 4 is connected to 3 and 5. In my case that means I have 4 cables in each switch, 2 connecting to each neighbor, but that's for additional redundancy and bandwidth. It could be done with just one cable to each neighbor.

TrolleyMC

maybe it's transmitting *that* much data between the two switches that it actually requires two cables

clabretro

Thanks! It's definitely heading in the right direction finally. Yeah odd that it required two

TrolleyMC

Sorry to hear you've been sick, man. I hope you had a good holiday. I think it's interesting that it has two cables and you wire them up like a serial connection, with one transmitting the other receiving then vice versa.