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: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Jamie Savage Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 9:18 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses 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 xxxxx.xx.yorku.ca dhcpd: event=dhcp_offer&loglevel=info&msg=DHCPOFFER on 192.168.100.211 to 00:11:22:33:44:55 (android_9774d56d682e549c) via eth1 gw 192.168.100.2& The android reference here is the computer name which could have been entered by the user but the subsequent alpha string would indicate it's a generated name. ........thx............J James Savage York University Senior Communications Tech. 108 Steacie Building jsav...@yorku.ca 4700 Keele Street ph: 416-736-2100 ext. 22605 Toronto, Ontario fax: 416-736-5830 M3J 1P3, CANADA From: "Ingen Schenau, Jeroen van (ICTS)" <j.vaningensche...@utwente.nl> To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Date: 09/27/2010 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses Sent by: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> ________________________________ 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 last 31 days. Regards, Jeroen van Ingen ICT Service Centre University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
