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kukrapok
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Jun 11, 2017
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Stacking two GS108E switches?

Hello there!

 

is it possible to stack two GS108E switches? I have one v2 and one v3, and would like to extend the first one (which is in place) by adding the second one (which has just been bought).

 

Any hint?

 

Thanks in advance.

4 Replies

  • DaneA's avatar
    DaneA
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hi kukrapok,

     

    Welcome to the community! :) 

     

    Both GS108Ev2 and GS108Ev3 switches does not support stacking.  However, if ever you are using both switches just like an unmanaged switch, you can cascade the GS108Ev2 to the GS108Ev3 or vice cersa. Furthermore, if the same VLANs are configured on both switches, be sure to tagged the ports connecting the two switches with a PVID of 1.

     

     

    Regards,

     

    DaneA

    NETGEAR Community Team

    • kukrapok's avatar
      kukrapok
      Aspirant

      Thanks for you reply, DaneA!

       

      Ok, now I have to confess, I'm an almost complete newbie to switches configuration. My both devices still have default setup (I only configured the IPs) for fix the local topology (which is a basic small home office). No VLAN setup yet.

      For now I don't know the difference between stacking and cascading. If stacking means in parallel then I probably don't have the hardware setup to do this here.

      Does cascading means plug in a wire that bounds (say) port 8 on both GS108 devices?

      Before I got a second switch, my configuration w/ only one switch was pretty simple. My router machine gets internet box line in, and line out to the switch. On the switch, all devices and a wifi AP are plugged in. Since both 8 ports are busy, I wanted to extend the switch area w/ 8 more (in fact, 7 more, if I substract the bound between both switches). Is that an incorrect expectation?

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