[c-nsp] Fake Gear?? 2621XM

[Ramcharan, Vijay A]

What if the counterfeiter simply copies a valid serial number and uses
it to produce x number of fake Cisco labels (those are faked to look
like real labels too) which they then affix to x number of fake
chassis'?

 
Vijay Ramcharan 
  
-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart
Sent: August 13, 2008 15:24
To: 'Seth Mattinen'
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Fake Gear?? 2621XM

Neither had I... I have hard of lots of fake 2950 switches though and
that
they are extremely hard to tell the difference....

Thanks everyone for the replies.... anyone aware of a way to run serial
numbers on Cisco.com and verify the correct model even?  I'm heard of
some
grey market resellers doing this before...

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm at rollernet.us] 
Sent: August 13, 2008 3:05 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Fake Gear?? 2621XM

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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