[c-nsp] Fake Gear?? 2621XM

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Paul Stewart wrote:

> The exact same problem keeps happening about every 3-4 weeks on most of
> these 2621XM's - the FastE0/1 port "goes to sleep".  When a technician goes
> onsite, he does a shutdown/no shutdown and everything starts working again
> for 3-4 weeks.  At first we thought this was the equipment the 2621XM's plug
> into but now we're starting to wonder when the same pattern is occurring
> over and over.  At one of the sites, we swapped out the 2621XM and put an
> 1841 in place and so far no issues at all and it's been 5 weeks.

It doesn't have to be fake gear to be buggy.  That used to happen all the 
time on our AS5200s.  Eventually, cisco came out with IOS that stopped 
doing it.

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