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

[Shakeel Ahmad]

> ($7000 for a 512 meg memory upgrade that's Kingston made and available
direct
> from them for $50, I don't think so)

Guess what, i had to buy a PIX515E-MEM-128 , i have a branded SDRAM by
Kingston for my computer (way way to cheap against Cisco's price) i plugged
that RAM in my PIX and it worked very fine - only issue i had was to keep
the LID off :P cz. new RAM was bit taller.





On 10/25/06, Joseph W. Breu <breu at cfu.net> wrote:
>
> 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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