Method and device for realizing stacking

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for realizing stacking, comprising the following steps: a master control board acquires stacking information from an interface board; the stacking information comprises a member number of stacking equipment, a stacking opening, a member port of the stacking opening; the master control board consults compatibility and versions with opposite equipment according to the stacking opening; when the stacking equipment is compatible with the opposite equipment in no need of an updating version, the master control board is added into the stacking in which the stacking equipment is located according to the stacking information. In the invention, when a new master control board is changed on the stacking equipment, the master control board can acquire the stacking information through the interface board, and is added into a stacking system according to the stacking information when the master control board is compatible with the opposite equipment in no need of anupdating version, thus the master control board is dynamically added into the stacking system; the configuration process is simple, and manual configuration is not needed.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to a method and device for implementing stacking. Background technique [0002] With the dramatic increase in network size, stacking technology emerges as the times require. Stacking technology connects two or more network devices through stacking ports to form a stacking system. Logically speaking, the network devices formed by stacking together are equivalent to the same device. The user manages the stack system just like managing one device, that is, the user manages all the devices in the stack by managing the stack system. Among them, stacking technology can provide high availability, high scalability, and simplify management, and has been widely used in data centers and enterprise core networks. [0003] In the prior art, the stacking technology applied in the data center mainly includes the IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework, Intelligent Resilient Fr...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] Based on the above analysis, the current stacking technology has the following disadvantages: When all the main control boards of a member device fail, a new main control board needs to be replaced, and the following content must be manually configured on the newly replaced main control board: Reconfigure the stacking mode and reconfigure the stacking port, that is, the content on the main control board is manually configured, and the configuration process is complicated and prone to errors

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