[c-nsp] Catalyst 3750 stacks with many members

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Mon Nov 17 02:35:54 EST 2008


Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2008 05:20:25 Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
>> As a result of that we do not put stacks any more. If we
>> need more ports we simply join them using ethernet cables
>> (and etherchannels) and manage independently of each
>> other.
> 
> It has always been my personal opinion that inter-switch 
> trunking or migrating to a small, single-chassis, 
> multi-line-card based platform (e.g., 6504-E) would offer 
> far less headache than Stacking, and keep things simple.
> 
> Given the feedback from folk on this thread so far, I think 
> we did well to avoid stacks.
> 

Out of curiosity, I never see the 4500 chassis mentioned; why is that?

~Seth


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