Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Enhanced Stacking
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Section I: Basic Operations
Master and Slave Switches
An enhanced stack must have at least one master switch. This switch is 
your management access point to the switches of a stack. After you have 
started a local or remote management session on a master switch, you 
can redirect the session to any of the other switches.
The other switches in the stack are known as slave switches. They can be 
managed through the master switch or directly, such as from a local 
management session.
An enhanced stack can have more than one master switch. Multiple 
master switches can lessen the impact on your network management 
should you need to remove a master switch from the network, such as for 
maintenance purposes.