N2048 Switch Stack
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Hey folks,
Quick one...
I have a Dell N2048 stack. Stack member A connects to the firewall eth 1 (trusted/LAN). Eth 2 - 4 are disabled. Eth 0 is WAN. Eth 5 is WAN2 with second line.
If member A died, but member B stays up, connection to the firewall is down for the stack as the uplink is from member A, not member B.
Would I create a loop that would kill the network if I made Eth2 on the firewall part of the trusted/LAN network and then connect Eth2 to member B? The idea would be that if A dies, B still can get to the firewall as it has a path too...
Best,
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Not if you have STP setup correctly.
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@jimmy9008 said in N2048 Switch Stack:
ate a loop that would kill the network if I made Eth2 on the firewall part of the trusted/LAN network and then connect Eth2 to member B? The idea would be that if A dies, B still can get to the firewall as it has a path too...
You can do this if you have STP properly setup with only one root bridge.
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@dbeato said in N2048 Switch Stack:
@jimmy9008 said in N2048 Switch Stack:
ate a loop that would kill the network if I made Eth2 on the firewall part of the trusted/LAN network and then connect Eth2 to member B? The idea would be that if A dies, B still can get to the firewall as it has a path too...
You can do this if you have STP properly setup with only one root bridge.
Would that be setup purely switch side, or firewall side too? Looking at the N2048 documentation now.
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Out of box STP is enabled. Would that suffice do you think?
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@jimmy9008 said in N2048 Switch Stack:
that be setup purely switch side, or firewall side too? Looking at the N2048 documentation now
It will be setup on the switch side.
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I can see RSTP is enabled on the stack. I presume this should mean I can connect stack member B to the firewall and the stack will put that in to a sort of disabled state, and will use should the link in switch A fail?
