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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph W. Breu" <breu at cfu.net>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Article: Beware of counterfeit Cisco gear


> 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.
>

So, what did the supply source do when you told them?

Ted