Below are a few of the common devices you may be registering on OCUunsecure. Finding a MAC AddressĮvery wireless device will have its own method to allow you to identify its MAC address. For the purpose of registering your device, you only need the 12 characters and not the hyphens or colons that separate them. The MAC address (also sometimes called the Hardware Address, Physical Address, Ethernet address, Network Interface Card Address) is a unique identifier made up of 12 numeric digits and alphabetic letters assigned to a network device and is often seen in the format xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx or xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx. Additionally, for now (even though I know it's not a secure solution) I've filtered the offending "private" MAC address from accessing my home networks.When registering a device to the OCUunsecure wireless network, you will need to identify that devices MAC address for its wireless network card.
Other info: I've recently updated the WPA2 password from pretty secure to 13+ character length after seeing a "ghost" (aka evil twin) access point/SSID that I also can't identify. I'm looking for any information that may be useful in helping me understand where and what this device may be. It cannot identify the vendor/manufacturer, the O/S, or anything else. I've used NMap pointed at the IP associated with the "private" MAC address but it can't identify anything about it either. I have a private MAC address showing up on my LAN with a DHCP assigned IP address that I haven't been able to identify.
Google knows all, but I can't really find anything in plain English about typical use or scenarios where they would be used. By that I mean when I look up the MAC Address through the DD-WRT OUI Lookup, it's designated as private. The one I wanted to ask about here was regarding private MAC Addresses. I'm probably being paranoid and plan on doing further research and learning on my own, but I've been seeing strange things on my home network lately. I'm a software developer, so "technologically" curious by nature but admittedly have never really researched in-depth low level technical details of networking. I'm not new to home networking and I've been running DD-WRT routers for years.
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