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MAC address 00:ab:00:00:00:00?

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    yottabyte
    last edited by Apr 7, 2012, 1:41 PM

    I noticed something screwy happening with my pfSense late at night and after some mucking around I found this in my DHCP leases:

    IP address      MAC address            Hostname    Start                              End                              Online    Lease Type
    192.168.2.6    00🆎00:00:00:00                          2012/04/03 03:07:33    1969/12/31 17:00:00    offline    active

    I tried looking this up in System Logs but the GUI only lets me see maximum 2000 entries, and it seems that the DHCP portion was wiped after I rebooted the system.  I have accounted for all the DHCP leases, except for this one, and as you can see it is quite unusual.

    Can this mean that someone cracked my WPA2 encryption and is using my WIFI with this spoofed MAC address?

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      cmb
      last edited by Apr 7, 2012, 8:17 PM

      It could mean anything, no telling based on that description. Definitely a screwy MAC address but there are numerous possible reasons for that. Unlikely anyone cracked your WPA2 unless you're using a key like "password". That host show up in your ARP table?

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        urbangear
        last edited by May 8, 2012, 11:47 AM

        i noticed it too

        IP address         MAC address   Hostname Start                         End                         Online Lease Type
        192.168.1.103 00🆎00:00:00:00         2012/04/24 16:27:13 1970/01/01 08:00:00 offline active

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          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by May 8, 2012, 7:59 PM

          Might be interesting to see the contents of /var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd.leases and, if you can catch it, the DHCP logs from that request.

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            tzlwin
            last edited by Jul 29, 2012, 4:26 PM

            I have the same problem here. Status -DHCP lease

            172.18.10.200 00🆎00:00:00:00 2012/07/27 09:28:26 1970/01/01 06:30:00

            It seems like never expired dhcp lease.

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              tzlwin
              last edited by Jul 29, 2012, 4:37 PM

              I set this MAC to static IP and block this IP from accessing anything at Firewall Rules.
              I can't even manually delete this DHCP lease. What a strange?  :o

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