Tag: stackwise

Cisco Stackwise – Stack Master Election

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Cisco, Routing & Switching

I was study the topic on Stackwise under the CCNP R&S Switch and saw some discrepancies on the order of the stack Master Election.

I had to resort to the Cisco 3750X configuration guide to get some clarification and this is what I discovered:

The Stack master election is done in this order:

  1. The switch that is currently the stack master
  2. The switch with the highest stack member priority
  3. The switch that is not using the default interface configuration
  4.  The switch with the highest IOS feature
    1. IP services
    2. IP based
  5. The switch uptime
  6. The switch with the lowest MAC address

I hope this clarify the stack master election.