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MarkusBuchmayr
Oct 04, 2021Follower
M4300 stacking
Hi!
I'm currently running a stack of 3x m4300-96x, located in different parts of 2 buildings. Running a ring is not possible, so switch 2 and 3 are each connected via 4x Qsfp+ Stacklinks to the "Stack Master". i added 3 more M4300 28G via 10gig fiber ports to the stack today. now i have 6 switches showing up within the stack configuration. i configured the vlans. everything within the 3x M4300-96x is working fine, but everything connected to the 3xM4300-28G won't work/show up on the network ( Dante devices, PCs,....) I'm not sure if i got something wrong, but a M4300-96x supports 16 stacking Ports no matter if it's 10 or 40 gig, or mixture?
So if i'm correct my setup should be working:
Stackmaster:
1/5/1 40Gig stackport 1 to stackmember 2 (second M4300-96x)
1/5/5 40Gig stackport 2 to stackmember 2 (second M4300-96x)
1/6/1 40Gig stackport 3 to stackmember 2 (second M4300-96x)
1/6/5 40Gig stackport 4 to stackmember 2 (second M4300-96x)
1/11/1 40Gig stackport 5 to stackmember 3 (third M4300-96x) (waiting for the apm 402xl card)
1/11/5 40Gig stackport 6 to stackmember 3 (third M4300-96x) (waiting for the apm 402xl card)
1/12/1 40Gig stackport 7 to stackmember 3 (third M4300-96x)
1/12/5 40Gig stackport 8 to stackmember 3 (third M4300-96x)
1/10/1 10gig stackport 9 stackmember 7 (m4300-28G not installed yet)
1/10/2 10gig stackport 10 to stackmember 6 (third m4300-28G)
1/10/3 10gig stackport 11 to stackmember 4 (first m4300-28G)
1/10/4 10gig stackport 12 to stackmember 4 (first m4300-28G)
1/10/5 10gig stackport 13 to stackmember 5 (second m4300-28G)
1/10/6 10gig stackport 14 to stackmember 5 (second m4300-28G)
1/10/7 10gig stackport 15 to stackmember 8 (m4300-52G not installed yet)
1/10/8 10gig stackport 16 to stackmember 8 (m4300-52G not installed yet)
Looks a little confusing. SDVoE traffic is pretty much staying within each M4300-96x, Dante, NDI, data is mostly used within the main location (Stackmaster and the M4300 28&52G)
thanks for your help!
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- LaurentMaNETGEAR ExpertHi MarkusBuchmayr,
Thank you for posting here, and sorry for your issue. Be sure we'll solve it.
Yes, M4300 series switches support 8 switches per stack, and up to 16 ports 10G or 40G per switch in stacking mode. In your case, not sure what's wrong but this may be config issue, or some ports configured in Stack mode but running in Ethernet mode.
It will be fastidious here to troubleshoot so please export the tech-support file out of your stack (Maintenance/Export/HTTP File Export/tech support in the dropdown menu list) and send it to us by email to ProAVDesign@netgear.com with a link to this post.
One of our ProAV SEs will review the config and logs in the tech support file before contacting you. No worries, sometimes modules or cabling or stack config may lead to issues but easy to detect in TS file and we'll fix it with you.
Once resolved we'll update this thread here on the Community.
Regards,
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