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Re: wireless traffic

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Fri Nov 09 11:31:41 2001

In message <[email protected]>, Andrew Brown writes:
>
>>> Does anybody know where I can locate a list of MAC address prefixes that
>>> belong specifically to wireless NIC cards?  I am looking for a method of
>>> discovering what devices on my network are wireless devices.
>>
>>Power down the wireless hub and see who calls? ;)
>>
>>Seriously though - your wireless hub/transmitter may have a queryable
>>arp table that will tell you what's not using the wire....
>
>i've used/seen cards with these prefixes:
>
> 00:e0:29 - smc
> 00:02:2d - orinoco/wavelan cards (lucent/agere)
>

I'm sending this via a Lucent card with prefix 0:60:1d.  A glance at my 
ARP table for a wireless-only segment shows 0:4:dd, 0:3:6b, 8:0:20, 
0:0:c, 0:c0:b7, 0:d0:b7, 8:0:6a, and more.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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