[123305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco hardware question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Thu Mar 4 22:22:46 2010
In-Reply-To: <SNT140-w1579B13E65F64CD3A8CE19B0390@phx.gbl>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:22:18 -0300
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: "Kaveh ." <afx66@hotmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> We have noticed that a number of Cisco appliances we have recently purcha=
sed and paid (AS NEW), are being shipped as if they have been already used/=
refurbished. In other words, several times we have seen brand new Cisco har=
dware, out of the box, that has pre-existing configuration (Interfaces with=
Private IP addresses, static routes, etc =85) and in some cases even non-s=
ystem files, like =91crashdump.txt=92 or additional IOS images. Most import=
antly our latest purchase; 2 'new' ASAs, contain a series of files named: F=
SCK0000.REC, FSCK0001.REC, FSCK0002.REC, etc ... . Based on some research i=
t seems like that these files are 'recovery files' signaling bad/failing ha=
rd disks in these appliances.
May be you purchased a truly brand new Cisco appliance where the HDD
is refurbished, possibly due to:
- Cisco cutting costs on parts procurement
- Cisco supplier cutting costs by refurbishing HDD
- Cisco contractor that does assembly making extra revenue by selling
new HDDs that Cisco bought and replacing them with refurbished ones
Rubens
