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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by count on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:38PM (#32361710)
Don't forget that was a joint effort by 3Com w/Huawei.

The debug messages even still said Cisco. It was ridiculous.

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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by CodeSgt on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:32PM (#32362733)
Wow! I've never heard of thus. How were the counterfeit servers eventually discovered to be counterfeits? Sounds like this went pretty deep.
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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by signa11 on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:26PM (#32363112)
you buy one, and ask your engineers to go to work on it. make sure it is air gapped…
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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by count on Sunday August 07, 2022 @04:11PM (#32379426)
LOL, more like, you take the factory manufacturing stuff, and the stolen source code for the OS that runs on it, you run a sed script to replace 'Cisco' with '3Com' and 'IOS' with '3OS' but make it not actually do so everywhere, and then just change the badge and ship to customers.

And for what it's worth, they were network switches/routers, not servers. Cisco didn't make 'servers' back in the day.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2674627/3com-huawei-joint-...

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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by signa11 on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:25PM (#32363088)
yup, c10k (iirc) was one of the affected platforms.
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