[c-nsp] Fake Gear?? 2621XM

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Aug 13 15:04:44 EDT 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.
>  
> Any thoughts? ;)
> 


I'm aware of fake modules, and a have some fakes, but I've personally
never heard of fake routers before now.

~Seth


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