[rescue] Cisco weirdness

[Nick]

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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