I hear rumours that switches check the PROM serial numbers are all unique in a given device and Cisco switches have been known to throw errors when non-unique ID's surface.
That said, ISTR seeing plenty of knock-off PA/NM/xWIC modules surfacing through the ebay and such; there's a real push now for vendors to buy from "reputable" sales channels. That said, how many small companies would bother checking that their integrators "Cisco certified! honest!" stamp was truely what they claimed.
(That, and I think the PA-FE-FX in my lab 7204 is grey.. damn you ebay.)
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Date: 2007-05-28 11:26 am (UTC)That said, ISTR seeing plenty of knock-off PA/NM/xWIC modules surfacing through the ebay and such; there's a real push now for vendors to buy from "reputable" sales channels. That said, how many small companies would bother checking that their integrators "Cisco certified! honest!" stamp was truely what they claimed.
(That, and I think the PA-FE-FX in my lab 7204 is grey.. damn you ebay.)