Converting an ICX 7750 Ring to a Linear Stack in a Live Environment

The following example uses the no multi-stack-trunk command to remove the connection between stack units 1 and 2, thereby changing the ICX 7750 ring to a three-unit linear stack.

ICX7750-48F Router# show stack
T=18m51.7: alone: standalone, D: dynamic cfg, S: static
ID   Type          Role    Mac Address    Pri State   Comment
1  S ICX7750-48XGF active  609c.9f7f.9400 128 local   Ready
2  S ICX7750-20QXG standby cc4e.2438.7280   0 remote  Ready
3  S ICX7750-20QXG member  748e.f8f9.6300   0 remote  Ready

    active                    standby
    +---+        +---+        +---+
=2/1| 1 |2/4==2/4| 3 |2/1==2/4| 2 |2/1=
|   +---+        +---+        +---+   |
|                                     |
|-------------------------------------|

ICX7750-48F Router# configure terminal
ICX7750-48F Router(config)# stack unit 2
ICX7750-48F Router(config-unit-2)# no multi-stack-trunk 2/2/4 to 2/2/6 and 3/2/1 to 3/2/3
ICX7750-48F Router(config-unit-2)#T=20m10.5: Election, was active, no change, ID=1, pri=128, 3U(1-3), A=u1, nbr#=1 1, reason: u3: stk-po-chg, ,

ICX7750-48F Router(config-unit-2)# show stack
T=20m24.7: alone: standalone, D: dynamic cfg, S: static
ID   Type          Role    Mac Address    Pri State   Comment
1  S ICX7750-48XGF active  609c.9f7f.9400 128 local   Ready
2  S ICX7750-20QXG standby cc4e.2438.7280   0 remote  Ready
3  S ICX7750-20QXG member  748e.f8f9.6300   0 remote  Ready

    standby      active
     +---+        +---+        +---+
     | 2 |2/1==2/1| 1 |2/4==2/4| 3 |
     +---+        +---+        +---+