[123260] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cisco hardware question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kaveh .)
Thu Mar 4 15:48:58 2010
From: "Kaveh ." <afx66@hotmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:48:24 -0800
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hello=2C
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I apologize if this is an unusual topic but I would like to know what this =
expert community thinks about this issue:
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We have noticed that a number of Cisco appliances we have recently purchase=
d and paid (AS NEW)=2C are being shipped as if they have been already used/=
refurbished. In other words=2C several times we have seen brand new Cisco h=
ardware=2C out of the box=2C that has pre-existing configuration (Interface=
s with Private IP addresses=2C static routes=2C etc =85) and in some cases =
even non-system files=2C like =91crashdump.txt=92 or additional IOS images.=
Most importantly our latest purchase=3B 2 'new' ASAs=2C contain a series o=
f files named: FSCK0000.REC=2C FSCK0001.REC=2C FSCK0002.REC=2C etc ... . Ba=
sed on some research it seems like that these files are 'recovery files' si=
gnaling bad/failing hard disks in these appliances.=20
Anyone on thhis group has seen this before and if yes=2C are we supposed to=
blindly trust the vendor saying the hardware is new=2C safe and secure?
The only way I can explain this is that the hardware has been refurbished o=
r previously configured for reasons unknown to me. I think if customers pay=
s for new hardware=2C they should get new hardware=2C even if refurbished h=
ardware may be covered by Smartnet.
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Any thoughts or recommendations anyone? The last thing we want to do is to =
deploy faulty (or non secure) security appliances in production. :)
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Thank you
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Best regards
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