[c-nsp] smoke and condensation damage to routers

[Jason LeBlanc]

If you can believe this. ;)  Hurricane Wilma took the roof off our corp
hq a couple years back, water ran down between floors, through conduits,
etc and got more or less everywhere.  We had a 6500 in a wiring closet
that got dumped full of water.  Believe it or not that switch has been
running in the same closet ever since, same cards and parts.  It had
dried out for several months and was powered off when it got wet so
there were no shorts.  It still amazes me, but it still works just fine.
 Crazy.  We had some servers that had the same thing happen to them.

Darrell Root wrote:
> 
> We had a fire in a building where we stored a significant quantity of
> gear and are attempting to
> determine whether any of the gear in the vicinity can be trusted (and
> dealing with the insurance
> adjustor).
> 
> Stuff sprayed with water or in dense smoke (everything on the floor of
> the fire) is thrown out of course.
> 
> I've got some switches which were 1 floor downstairs from the fire. 
> They were in moderate smoke.
> They are dry, although the building was very humid (3 inches of water on
> floor).  Most of them smell
> smoky.
> 
> My worst judgement call is a pair of ASA5580-40's in the original
> packaging 1 floor down from the
> fire.  They were inside a plastic bag inside a box on a pallet.  The box
> is dry.
> Some condensation was noticed inside the plastic bag when it was opened up.
> 
> From my standpoint I don't want to trust any of this gear in
> production.  Of course, the insurance
> adjustor sees gear that appears undamaged and is now completely dry.
> 
> Anyone have experience running gear that was subjected to smoke, and
> possibly some
> condensation?  Did it result in abnormal outages in the future?
> 
> Darrell Root
> ciscotraining at mac.com
> 
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