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On 13/01/14 22:21, bad apple wrote:
This is why I have a list of all MAC addresses I know about and what equipment they relate to. I have occasionally seen 'Unknown' but a quick look at my list tells me what it is. What /does/ wind me up with Android is the inability to change the device name from 'android_[miscellaneous hex string]'. It's a real pain in the backside, especially if one of my friends is over with his phone and/or tablet and I have mine on as well. Looking at the list of connected devices just gives four lots of 'android_[etc]' which tells me nothing at all. However, it's not a big enough pain for me to root the phone if that were the only way around it.On 13/01/14 22:13, George Parker wrote:My phone always has the first 3 as 00:08:22: then random. I've had a closer look and find I've misled a bit. I have a tablet, cheapy direct from China running Android 4.1 and that returns the same MAC address every time. My phone is also a cheapy direct from China running Android 4.2 and this is giving the problem. I'll see if I can dig out the details of where I got it and email them. More worrying is an entry in my client list that gives: Client name: Unknown MAC address: F0:A2:25:A1:99:A1 IP address: 192.168.1.7 Valid time: 01:39:22 All my devices have a client name so I presume that this is an outsider hooking into my Wi-Fi. I do have it password protected on *WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK.Um yeah, if you *really* don't recognise and can't account in any way for that IP address then you definitely have more serious things to worry about than randomised MAC addresses... You don't have WPS enabled on the router do you? Definitely check that, and enable strictly WPA2 only for authentication if you can, not WPA/WPA2. But surely it's just your set top box, games console or some other networked gadget you've forgotten about? Regards
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