gregandrene
join:2005-01-23
Marion, VA
| reply to darthboy
Re: Is this an attack
N00b question: how do you register MAC addresses? Aren't they hardwired in the NIC? |
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Anav
Sarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
Premium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
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February 20th, @10:38AM
| No good reason to turn essid off and it may cause you reconnecting issues. Best to leave it off. Mac filtering has no possible negative effects, thus can be left in place although security wise its not very effective. (curious if you remove mac filtering what happens ref the logging), |
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Thane_Bitter
join:2005-01-20
London, ON
| reply to gregandrene
said by gregandrene  :N00b question: how do you register MAC addresses? Aren't they hardwired in the NIC? The IEEE assigns MAC addresses to hardware makers (actually large blocks of addresses), you can use a tool on their site to see who made the device.
»standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
Use the "Search the public OUI listing" box and enter the fist 6 hex digits of the MAC address.
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Da_Penguin
join:2008-04-20
| It's also quite trivial to spoof a MAC (windows will actually check the registry for a MAC address of the network card, before using the card's built in one so its just a registry key change)
but as it has been said earlier it this thread, since it is only Deny's showing, i wouldn't be concerned. |
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