Just to add a little to this, have you seen the condition of some ILEC
central offices these days? I remember being in one in Connecticut that had
standing water.;)
The point is routers get left in a lot of less than data center quality
level facilities. Think of how many 26xx's, hell 25xx, random access
servers and random odd devices that sit in the back of Quick Stops, food
courts and the odd war zone here or there that function for not a few months
but years of uptime. I would think that if the boxes are reasonably free
from damage a good cleaning and once over should do the trick. Before you
settle with your insurance company make them allow you to leave a month of
so test period.
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From: "Alex Balashov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Darrell Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] smoke and condensation damage to routers
It seems to me that most of the questions you are asking can only be
resolved by empirical means, as most of the marginal effects you are
describing beyond the immediately affected area are likely to be
manifested on a microscopic level, or in some other province of the
physical that affects the function of integrated circuits but is not
readily discernable to the naked eye.
There does not exist a feat, method, or technique of analytical, or "a
priori" physics that can give you a reliable answer one way or another.
From personal observation in similar situations, I would say that the
ASA5580-40s are almost certainly just fine.
Darrell Root wrote:
We had a fire in a building where we stored a significant quantity of
gear and are attempting to
determine whether any of the gear in the vicinity can be trusted (and
dealing with the insurance
adjustor).
Stuff sprayed with water or in dense smoke (everything on the floor of
the fire) is thrown out of course.
I've got some switches which were 1 floor downstairs from the fire. They
were in moderate smoke.
They are dry, although the building was very humid (3 inches of water on
floor). Most of them smell
smoky.
My worst judgement call is a pair of ASA5580-40's in the original
packaging 1 floor down from the
fire. They were inside a plastic bag inside a box on a pallet. The box
is dry.
Some condensation was noticed inside the plastic bag when it was opened
up.
From my standpoint I don't want to trust any of this gear in production.
Of course, the insurance
adjustor sees gear that appears undamaged and is now completely dry.
Anyone have experience running gear that was subjected to smoke, and
possibly some
condensation? Did it result in abnormal outages in the future?
Darrell Root
ciscotraining at mac.com
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