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Comment by gorgoiler

Spoof the last three bytes all you like, but set the first three to 00:0E:AB. It’s unlikely, but it might give someone a chuckle.

”We’ve got a problem; someone’s misusing the crap out of the free wifi”

”Lets narrow it down by hardware: what kind of device are they using?”

”How should I know!?”

”Check the first three bytes of their MAC address; it’ll tell you the mfr”

”OK... checking now... yeah I see them... looking up their MAC... bingo... hey, what is ‘Cray Inc’?”

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Better versions of this joke are available here:

http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

parent gorgoiler 5 years ago

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