Stack Management for the Series 3400cl and 6400cl Switches 
Configuring Stack Management 
■  The Candidate’s Auto Join is set to Yes (and  you do not want to enable 
Auto Grab on the Commander) or the Candidate’s Auto Join is set to No. 
■  Either  you know the MAC address of the Commander for the stack into 
which you want to insert the Candidate, or the Candidate has a valid IP 
address and is operating in your network. 
Syntax:  stack join < mac-addr > 
where: < mac-addr > is the MAC address of the Commander in 
the destination stack. 
Use Telnet (if the Candidate has an IP address valid for your network) or a 
direct serial port connection to access the CLI for the Candidate switch. For 
example, suppose that a Candidate named “North Sea” with Auto Join off and 
a valid IP address of 10.28.227.104 is running on a network. You could Telnet 
to the Candidate, use show stack all to determine the Commander’s MAC 
address, and then “push” the Candidate into the desired stack. 
1.  Telnet to the Candidate named “North Sea”. 
2.  Use show stack all to display the Commander’s 
MAC address. 
3.  Set the Candidate CLI to Config mode. 
4.  Execute stack join with the 
Commander’s MAC address to “push” 
the Candidate into the stack. 
MAC Address for 
Stack Commander 
Figure 13-31.  Example of “Pushing” a Candidate Into a Stack 
To verify that the Candidate successfully joined the stack, execute 
show stack 
all
 again to view the stacking status. 
Using the Destination Commander CLI To “Pull” a Member from 
Another Stack.  This method uses the Commander in the destination stack 
to “pull” the Member from the source stack. 
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