The MAC should also be on a label inside the battery compartment as I recall.
-Chris On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:02 PM, "Cortes, Diana" <dcor...@miami.edu> wrote: > 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:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Hao, Justin C > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 6:34 PM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > 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 > j...@austin.utexas.edu > ----- > > 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 >> >> ********** >> 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/. > > ********** > 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/.
