Cisco Catalyst 2975 Software Configuration Manual page 118

Planning a Switch Cluster
In Figure
is three. The cluster command switch discovers switches 11, 12, 13, and 14 because they are within three
hops from the edge of the cluster. It does not discover switch 15 because it is four hops from the edge
of the cluster.
Figure 5-1
Member
device 8
Member
device 9
Device 11
candidate
Edge of
cluster
Catalyst 2975 Switch Software Configuration Guide
5-6
5-1, the cluster command switch has ports assigned to VLANs 16 and 62. The CDP hop count
Discovery Through CDP Hops
Command device
VLAN 16
device
VLAN 62
Member
device 10
Device 12
Candidate
Device 13
devices
Device 14
Device 15
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