Ezurio makes M2M (machine to machine) wifi hardware.  so it's probably
something with the trucking industry and their fleet tracking/cargo
tracking etc.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Simon Westlake <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 00:16:A4 is owned by Ezurio Systems, LTD. Looks like they are owned by
> Laird and they make wireless modules for use in non-PC devices like fleet
> management, POS, etc. If they are disappearing, I'd imagine you're right,
> it is probably some kind of vehicle system.
>
>
> On 6/16/2015 3:27 PM, Ken Hohhof 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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