[104809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue May 27 15:46:41 2008
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805271225380.23546@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 27 May 2008, goemon@anime.net wrote:
> Are you buying directly from cisco or from resellers? If you are getting
> counterfeit hardware directly from cisco then I guess we have real problems.
According to the FBI presentation, which may not be a reliable source
for this topic, Cisco has very few "direct" customers.
Even if you think you are ordering "direct" from Cisco, e.g.
www.cisco.com, the order seems to get forwarded to several primary Cisco
resellers and the hardware shipped via a reseller. Even most resellers
buy their Cisco products from a primary reseller or a secondary reseller,
not direct from Cisco.
The FBI presentation did note that a few US Cisco customers, such as some
unnamed large US telcos and unnamed intelligence agencies, do order and
ship directly from Cisco.
