[c-nsp] counterfeit?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> I don't know if the secret key has been compromised, or if the cloners 
> just have access to a really large sample set, but these days they seem to 
> have no problem defeating the check and producing Cisco-branded optics 
> which work in any system. Many optic vendors will even give you a choice 
> of what you want your EEPROM vendor field to say, so you can even make 
> your own "store brand" line of optics the same way that Cisco does.

We buy SFPs in large batches, and have been explicitly specifying to
our SFP vendors that we need them coded for Cisco. Seems to work just
fine for us, and we haven't bought SFPs from Cisco for several years.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no