Thanks... we actually visited the student and saw that this was the MAC
address configured on the system. The student also claims this is the MAC
address on the box but we are still waiting to verify... (i.e. see the box)

Thanks for the feedback...

Diana


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hao, Justin C
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 6:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

it does show up occasionally, and as far as i can tell, this is because
users are following on-line tutorials for cracking WEP passwords (several of
them reference changing your mac interface to "00:11:22:33:44:55" manually
in the instructions to setup traffic sniffing.  If your users are using
these on a production network you may want to follow up as they may have
inadvertently changed their mac address and have no realized they need to
change it back.

or you could be mischievous and block that mac address completely and let
them come forwards to have their machine fixed.  I don't believe this is a
bug, but more user-inflicted.

-----
Justin Hao 
CCNA
Network Engineer, ITS Networking
The University of Texas at Austin
[email protected]
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On Sep 20, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Cortes, Diana wrote:

> Has anyone encountered any Macbooks with the following MAC addresses:
00:11:22:33:44:55? We believe this may be an Apple bug as we have found 2 on
our campus already with the exact same MAC address.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Diana Cortes, CISSP, CWNA
> University of MIami
> IT-Telecommunications
> 
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