Nope.
MAC address always starts with 00:16:A4
DHCP hostname always starts with UA followed by a long number

This forum post leads me to believe it is vehicle or RR car tracking:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=76847


From: Josh Luthman 
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 3:37 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] vehicle tracking systems and open WiFi hotspot

Do the DHCP lease names say Truck-PC?  I saw millions of those a while back.


Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> 
wrote:

  What did the mac search reveal?  Our tracking systems use GPS and GSM but not 
WiFi

  Jaime Solorza

  On Jun 16, 2015 2:27 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Fast food franchise at tollway oasis had us set up an open guest hotspot as 
a Virtual AP on their Mikrotik, and we see random WiFi connections and DHCP 
leases for MAC addresses starting with 00:16:A4 and hostnames starting with UA 
followed by a bunch of numbers.  The WiFi signal is always low, around -90.

    Doing some research on the web, I think this may be due to vehicle tracking 
systems,  I'm not sure if these are vehicles in the parking lot or whizzing by 
on the tollroad.  Also not sure if they are from the vehicle or the intermodal 
container it is carrying.

    I'm not sure it is a big problem, we have the DHCP lease time set to 30 
minutes.

    Has anyone else run into this, and if so, did you take any action?  I guess 
we could block connections from those MAC addresses, or maybe set a higher 
signal threshold to connect.  Or maybe we should just let them check their 
location or call the mothership or whatever they do.

    BTW, don't say this is a DOS attack trying to exhaust the DHCP leases, they 
dribble in 1 or at most 2 at a time.  If we had the DHCP leases set to 30 days, 
it could be a problem unless we expanded the pool. 


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