[rescue] Cisco weirdness

[Thomas Gallaway]

The place I found it in the dumpster was actually a company at tysons 
corner.

If anybody ever want's to get the grand royal rescue dumpster tour in 
Northern
Virginia. I had happy customer's before. I think dave and mike where 
pretty happy
with the stuff we found.

That reminds me what ever did happen to that satellite equipment we 
found?

Cja,
         Thomas

On Nov 21, 2003, at 1:13 PM, Nick wrote:

> You lucky bastard, have scored unless I'm mistaken.  I belive all 
> 2900xl
> switches have a lifetime warrenty, bit slow, but cisco will replace it.
> 	Nick
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
>
>> Well I was thinking so too but the fact that the switch was still in
>> it's original
>> wrapping aka sealed and there was no dirt/dust anywhere visible and 
>> also
>> that the fact when I consoled to it first it ran me true the initial
>> setup procedure
>> makes me think this switch never has been used before.
>>
>> I agree on the being late thing. Been a long day..
>>
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2003, at 1:16 AM, phoetoid wrote:
>>
>>> It sounds like they may have tossed the switch because it has faulty
>>> ports...which in my feeble knowledge could mean lots of things, such 
>>> as
>>> bad memory on the ports, or perhaps the backplane of the switch is 
>>> bad,
>>> or a million things I cant think of. It sure sounds like you are 
>>> going
>>> to be out of luck with this one if I read it right. Sorry to say
>>> so...but let some smarter people reply and then see what they say, 
>>> its
>>> too late at night for me!
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Thomas Gallaway
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:16 PM
>>> To: The Rescue List
>>> Subject: [rescue] Cisco weirdness
>>>
>>> I rescued a cisco 2900-XL out of a dumpster. Turns out the guy's gave
>>> it a extra toss
>>> so some of the plastic got bent but it still was in it's original
>>> wrapping and never uses.
>>> By the way this is the 2U unit with 16 * 10/100 ports and 2 expansion
>>> bay's.
>>>
>>> After turning it on first I used the wrong serial cable and all I got
>>> as output from the
>>> serial port was jibbrish and crap. I could read some of the words but
>>> most was just
>>> jibbrish. Well upon switching the rj45 to serial plug thing now I am
>>> getting a correct
>>> serial output.
>>>
>>> So the switch works, I can plug in stuff but here is my problem. Not
>>> every NIC or
>>> switch I connect works. This is total random. I am able to connect a
>>> sun nic, a switch
>>> and a wireless access point too it but an PC's nic or another
>>> switch/hub will not get
>>> a link. I tried all ports and different cables and did not seem to 
>>> find
>>> anything usefull.
>>> I was able to upload the latest IOS image to it but that did not fix
>>> it. It does not seem
>>> that the switch really is bad as I can connect to every port and 
>>> telnet
>>> into the switch.
>>> It is just that I can not plug everything into it.
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