Stacking Limitations - Lenovo RackSwitch G8264 Application Manual

Stacking Limitations

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The G8264 with ENOS 8.4 can operate in one of two modes:
 Default mode, which is the regular stand‐alone (or non‐stacked) mode.
 Stacking mode, in which multiple physical switches aggregate functions as a
single switching device.
When in stacking mode, the following standalone features are not supported:
 ACL Logging
 BCM Rate Control
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

 Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
Edge Control Protocol (ECP)

 Equal‐Cost Multi‐Path (ECMP)
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

 IGMP Relay, IGMP Querier, and IGMPv3
 Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2)
 IP Security (IPsec)
 IP version 6 (IPv6)
 Loop Guard
 Loopback Interfaces
 MAC address notification
 MSTP
 Network Configuration (NETCONF) Protocol
 Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
OpenFlow

 OSPF and OSPFv3
Port flood blocking

 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
Protocol‐based VLANs

 RIP
 Root Guard
 Router IDs
 Route maps
 sFlow port monitoring
 Static MAC address adding
 Static multicast
 USB
 Uni‐Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
 Unified Fabric Port (UFP)
VLAG

 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Note: In stacking mode, switch menus and command for unsupported features
may be unavailable, or may have no effect on switch operation.
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Chapter 18: Stacking