Patent ID: 9032057
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a user-initiated stack setup command on a console port of a first stackable device from a user console connected to said console port; establishing a stack with the first stackable device in response to the stack setup command; in response to receiving the stack setup command, designating the first stackable device as a master of the stack and assigning a numerical priority value to the first stackable device; and upon receipt from another stackable device that said other stackable device has a higher numerical priority value than the numerical priority value assigned to the first stackable device, transmitting a message by the first stackable device to such other stackable device to thereby force the numerical priority value of the other stackable device to be changed to be less than the assigned numerical priority value of the first stackable device.