Procurve Stack

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Sorry,
but the documentation mentionned the following point:
"The Commander is the only device in the stack that must have an IP address if you want to access it through the network."

And this one:
"Members (or Candidates) do not require an IP address, but they can have one."

So if i understand correctly, i have one commander, whit four member, each switch has his own ip, but the admnistration is doing by the ip of the commander?
Am i right?

[Pieter 't Hart]

>>> if you want to access it through the network."<<<

It's exactly as it says (but no more).
- TO the stack you only need one ip-adress to manage all stack members.
- FROM the stack member to the outside, above does not count and each member needs it's own address (ntp, sylog).

If a stack member does not have it's own address then, from the stack commander you can enable /disable ports, create vlans, create port trunks etc etc.
You can manually set time on the stack member from the commander interface.

But a stack member does not use the commander for ntp queries!
It does this all by itself and hence needs an ip-adresss (in a tcp/ip environment).