Even a switched off Cisco router can cause downtime
As we have mentioned in a previous post, our recent purchase of a Cisco router has not been entirely a happy one.
To rub insult into injury, even when I switched it off it still caused us downtime :(
It was at the top of our rack with the power switched off, but still with a live power supply going into it. Our regular broadband router started to fail intermittently. I assumed that it was just a software fault and cycled the power each time. After the third or fourth time around I was starting to get a bit annoyed. This time I picked it up so I could have a good look at it. I then realised that it was really hot, far hotter than it should have been. So I put my hand on the Cisco router it had been resting on and it was hot too.