[nsp] Switch Fraud

Sam Stickland sam_ml at spacething.org
Thu Apr 1 07:52:09 EST 2004


Sorry, forgot to mention. This is a Cisco 2950.

Sam

Stephen J. Wilcox <steve at telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
> what sort of switch?
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Sam Stickland wrote:
> 
>> Have checked back with the client, and it turns out what they are
>> actually saying is that the system serial number reported by Sh ver
>> is different from the system serial number on the sticker on the
>> back of the chasis and the sticker on the box.
>> 
>> Also the MAC address sticker on the chasis blatently isn't a mac
>> address (or if it is it's the first MAC address I've seen that's has
>> H's and V's in it!).
>> 
>> Sam
>> 
>> Ryan O'Connell wrote:
>>> Sam Stickland wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Have anyone ever come across any Cisco switches that have one
>>>> serial number reported by 'show version' and a different serial
>>>> number on the back of the case?
>>>> 
>>>> A client has just received a shipment of 8 of these, and it seems
>>>> quite suspicious.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is quite normal, one is the serial number of the motherboard
>>> and the other the serial number of the chassis.
>> 
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