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    Strange mac address

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    • F Offline
      firefox
      last edited by

      I entered the dhcp lease
      I saw this mac address

      I have no such computer mac address

      Also strange connection time  ???

      192.168.0.40  	00:ab:00:00:00:00  	  	2013/05/27 14:30:37  	1970/01/01 02:00:00  	offline  	active 
      

      I Googled and got this message
      But no answer what it is

      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48100.0.html

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        jiguana
        last edited by

        :o The NSA is spying on you  :o

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          phil.davis
          last edited by

          I have also noticed this in the past, but never been able to track it down. There must be some VM, network test utility, piece of hardware,… out there in the wild that takes a liking to this MAC address (probably intended to be some sort of broadcast address for some other non-IP protocol, but somehow ending up in a DHCP request)
          When someone does find the culprit on their network we would all love to hear about it!

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            gderf
            last edited by

            This has come up once before here:

            http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48100.0.html

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              firefox
              last edited by

              For now blocked the access to the internet and from the internet to this address

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                kejianshi
                last edited by

                People can clone MACs and set their mac address to anything they like, so if you are running wireless, that could be the case here.  Just a possibility.

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