Hello,

When the current master goes down, the slave switch will takeover the master

role and inherit all the settings from the master. Here is a document that

explains the master election. If all other parameters remain same, the

switch with lowest MAC ID will be selected as master.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5023/products_configuratio

n_example09186a00807811ad.shtml#election

Hope this helps.

Regards,

NT