Re: Logs from wireless routers disclosing L2/MAC info?

2009-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) writes:

 Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email
 access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the
 logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable
 modem port, (the rest could be guessed since the brand name is
 included in the email,) and, the MAC address of the cable modem's
 router port.

 Was I potty trained wrong, or is this risky.

It could be, but isn't necessarily.  Depends on other details of how the
network is set up.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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Logs from wireless routers disclosing L2/MAC info?

2009-01-15 Thread John Conover

Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email
access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the
logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable
modem port, (the rest could be guessed since the brand name is
included in the email,) and, the MAC address of the cable modem's
router port.

Was I potty trained wrong, or is this risky.

Thanks,

John

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John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
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