RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Methven, Peter J
We too are seeing that MAC address in our logging for our wireless service, although it doesn't look like there is an actual full user(s) log-in. It might be pure chance that we have a device which should be using that MAC address but I'm not convinced! So the issue may not just be limited to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Matthew Gracie
Watters, John wrote: I have 7 or 8 machines with this MAC address on our campus. Is it possible that Apple did something not nice with the MAC addresses in the MacBooks? We will try to track some of them down, but it won't be easy even using the block-it-nd-they-will-come method. My guess

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Peter P Morrissey
Let me get this straight. Are you guys saying that each address is exactly the same? Pete M. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Gracie Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 9:09 AM

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Michael Dickson
Fascinating. We have one user on campus so far with this address: 00:11:22:33:44:55 Vendor (reported by Airwave): CIMSYS Inc For Macbooks, the vendor is typically reported as Apple or Apple,Inc. Mike Michael Dickson 413.545.9639

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Ingen Schenau, Jeroen van (ICTS)
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:39 -0400, Michael Dickson wrote: Fascinating. We have one user on campus so far with this address: 00:11:22:33:44:55 Vendor (reported by Airwave): CIMSYS Inc My € 0.02: we've seen three distinct users with that MAC, over the past 7 days. Same when looking over the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Holland, Ryan C.
I will second that. I, too, am seeing one client with this mac address, reported the same way via Airwave as CIMSYS Inc. == Ryan Holland Network Engineer, Wireless Office of the Chief Information Officer The Ohio State University 614-292-9906

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Jamie Savage
Just went back in our logs and we had a few hits with this MAC last week. However, the DHCP records indicate that this one has something to do with Android?? Sep 22 16:01:50 x.xx.yorku.ca dhcpd: event=dhcp_offerloglevel=infomsg=DHCPOFFER on 192.168.100.211 to 00:11:22:33:44:55

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Manoj Abeysekera
I see a one too..Interesting! Manoj P. Manoj Abeysekera, CWNA, ACMP Network Engineer American University 4200 Wisconsin Ave, NW Washington DC. 20016 202-885-2702 From: Holland, Ryan C. holland@osu.edu To:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread John Duran
We are also seeing a client with that MAC address (00:11:22:33:44:55) on our system. John V. Duran Network Engineer University of New Mexico Information Technologies Ph: (505) 249-7890 Fax: (505) 277-8101 Holland, Ryan C. holland@osu.edu 9/27/2010 8:10 AM I will second that. I,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Jeff Wolfe
On 9/27/10 11:26 AM, John Duran wrote: We are also seeing a client with that MAC address (00:11:22:33:44:55) on our system. Just a sanity check here, since most management systems seem to use MAC address as a primary key, it's likely you'll only 'see' one 00:11:22:33:44:55

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Hao, Justin C
keep in mind that in airwave, the clients are uniquely identified by their mac address, so you'll need to check if multiple usernames show up associated to this single mac address, if this is the case, most likely it is multiple clients with either a manually configured mac address (due to WEP

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Peter P Morrissey
Thanks. And the other sanity check would be that we haven't seen any evidence yet that this is anything other than someone configuring their NIC with this address. Perhaps we should be concerned about the security issues regarding this but until I see two different pictures of vendor MAC

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Brooks, Stan
Justin, Thank you for pointing out that most management systems (AirWave, etc) use the MAC address as a unique identifier - it is supposed to be a unique hardware address. I've seen indication of that MAC on our Airwave Management Platform at Emory and can deduce we had 3-4 unique visitors,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Daniel Eklund
I've seen two unique logins with that MAC in the past month. -- Daniel Eklund Director, Networking Wayne State University 313-577-5558 Justin, Thank you for pointing out that most management systems (AirWave, etc) use the MAC address as a unique identifier - it is supposed to

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Johnson, Neil M
Jaime, I saw the exact same thing in our DHCP logs, including the hostname (android_977…) . Curious. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer Information Technology Services The University of Iowa Work: 319 384-0938 Mobile: 319 540-2081 Fax: 319 355-2618 E-mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu From:

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread Lee, Steven
The hostname android_977... appears to be a bug affecting Motorola Droid2's where many of them share the same IMEI 'International Mobile Equipment Identity', which is supposed to be unique:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-27 Thread heath.barnhart
I've found one a possible droid as well. Heath On 9/27/2010 2:39 PM, Lee, Steven wrote: The hostname android_977... appears to be a bug affecting Motorola Droid2's where many of them share the same IMEI 'International Mobile Equipment Identity', which is supposed to be unique:

Wireless N upgrade

2010-09-27 Thread Entwistle, Bruce
We are currently looking at upgrading the wireless network in our residence halls to N. I was looking to those who have recently conducted the same upgrade to please share their experiences. What vendors were evaluated and why was the particular vendor chosen? What equipment was in place

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless N upgrade

2010-09-27 Thread heath.barnhart
On 9/27/2010 3:16 PM, Entwistle, Bruce wrote: We are currently looking at upgrading the wireless network in our residence halls to N. I was looking to those who have recently conducted the same upgrade to please share their experiences. What vendors were evaluated and why was the

Mysterious Missing ARP Entry

2010-09-27 Thread Watters, John
I need some help with a strange new problem - a persistent missing ARP entry. We are a Cisco shop running WiSMs (6.0.199.4) with a mix of 1142s, 1131's and a few older 1242 APs. This past Friday we got a report of 5 XP tablets that could not use the wireless network. These are 5 out of a