Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

AT-S63 Management Software Features Guide

Section VII: Routing

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The local interface is used with the enhanced stacking feature. It is also 
used with remote management of a switch with a Telnet or SSH client, or a 
web browser. The local interface does the following:

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With an enhanced stack, it designates on the master switch the 
common VLAN and subnet that interconnects the switches of the 
stack. The master switch uses the local interface to send out its 
broadcast packets when searching for the other switches in a stack.

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With remote management, it designates the VLAN and subnet from 
where the remote management workstation will access the switch. The 
switch uses the local interface to watch for the management packets 
from the remote workstation and to send packets back to the remote 
station.

For example, assume you wanted to remotely manage a switch that had 
four subnets and four interfaces named VLAN4-0, VLAN11-0, VLAN12-0, 
and VLAN12-1, and the remote workstation was reaching the switch 
through the subnet of the VLAN11-0 interface. You would need to 
designate the VLAN11-0 interface as the local interface on the unit.

A switch can have only one local interface.

For background information on remote management of the switch, refer to 
the Starting an AT-S63 Management Session Guide. For background 
information on enhanced stacking, refer to Chapter 2, “Enhanced 
Stacking” on page 55.