Users mac address log

Dragon1 · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Tenerife

We recently upgraded to the full version from the light version, since then we seem to have a problem with the mac addresses in the user table
as below
00-13-CE-5E-A8-D8 Tue Jan 09 09:03:04 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 76 1.03MB 115.0KB
00-C0-9F-67-80-1F Tue Jan 09 07:25:09 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 174 1.21MB 501.0KB
00-14-A4-38-AA-F7 Tue Jan 09 09:25:18 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 54 1.5MB 277.0KB
00-08-0D-07-CE-19 Tue Jan 09 10:07:59 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 11 N/A N/A
00-16-CF-9C-94-E9 Tue Jan 09 07:51:38 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 148 2.04MB 926.0KB
00-40-D0-69-5B-1C Tue Jan 09 09:09:42 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 70 581.0KB 258.0KB
00-11-F5-40-6F-37 Tue Jan 09 09:23:13 2007 Tue Jan 09 10:18:46 2007 56 5.34MB 688.0KB
after upgrade
C0-A8-00-B6-00-00 Tue Jan 09 10:23:48 2007 Tue Jan 09 11:01:22 2007 38 11.83MB 8.24MB
C0-A8-00-B1-00-00 Tue Jan 09 10:20:25 2007 Tue Jan 09 11:08:47 2007 49 N/A N/A
C0-A8-00-66-00-00 Tue Jan 09 10:36:55 2007 Tue Jan 09 11:30:46 2007 54 157.0KB 73.0KB
C0-A8-00-95-00-00 Tue Jan 09 10:36:53 2007 Tue Jan 09 11:34:10 2007 58 N/A N/A
All mac addresses now start with C0-A8
we have only just noticed this as we are trying to track down a hacker who keeps attacking out AP's

help

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

Maybe someone is spoofing the MAC address? Please use tool like Ethereal to monitor your network.
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Dragon1 · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Tenerife

All of our clients? since a given date and time when we changed the key to full version.
Please let me have a more sensable answer

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

Actually, this is the first time we encounter this.

The only thing I can think is because the Standard to Advanced Edition upgrade will enable previously disabled features to come alive, some settings you change a while ago get triggered after the license upgrade. Still, I am not sure which feature that causes the problem...

As a test, you might want to revert the license key back to the Standard Edition to see whether the problem persists (in that case the timing is just a coincident).

BTW, are you using IP or MAC based Session Handling? Any special customization you apply to FirstSpot?
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Dragon1 · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Tenerife

Hi Alan
the only feature we are using in the full version that was not available in the light is ip based Session handling which we need for some equipment attached to the system, i will switch this feature over to mac based at our next shut down in 10 hours and see. thanks

one other problem which we have currently overcome by restarting the firstspot computer is when we upgraded to 4.12 from 4.07 we found that Firstspot would just stop at random intervals after 24 hours of operation
when wwe tried to restart first spot it would say that the private network adaptor was disabled which was not true, we would then carry out a full restart of the computer and every thing would work ok. since we intalled the new full version key we have not tried to run the first spot computer for more than 24 hour without a restart. any thoughts?
Thanks
Paul m

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

It is hard to say. I think there is some settings within your system are bothering FirstSpot. You might want to reinstall FirstSpot to clear up your problem.
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