I picked up two refurbished Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches, two stacking modules, and a single stacking cable. Despite everything I tried, I cannot get them to see each other.
So far, I have:
- upgraded to newest firmware on both (v3.3.8.2)
- installed the stacking modules
- installed the cable between the two
- configured the stacking ports to be in "Stack" mode instead of "Ethernet" mode
- followed the Dell documentation to the letter as far as rebooting them so that master can be established
- switched the cable every which way
- reconfigured them by manually selecting a stack id of 1 on one switch and 2 on the other
- tried all of the above both with the switches configured with initial IP setup and without
- I even contact the company I bought the stacking modules and cable from to report I must have received a bad cable (as unlikely as that is) and they reproduced my problem on their end and assume is must be a config error
No matter what, the switches always see the stack link status as "Link Down" and they both consider themselves an isolated master.
Any ideas?