[c-nsp] Article: Beware of counterfeit Cisco gear

[Joseph W. Breu]

Quoting Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org>:

> The conspiracty theorist in me says cisco may be making things sound much
> worse than they are in order to scare people into buying from "normal
> distribution channels" rather than ebay or shadey network gear resellers.

We bought 3 Cat 2509s from a 'reputed' supply source that turned out  
to be counterfeit.  The only reason we found out was the serial #s  
were the same as was the MAC address assigned to the chassis.

Thanks,

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