Asim Beg wrote: > [...] > Whats interesting is that the MAC addresses in (1) could not be located in > the public database....government/military/forged perhaps?. Three things sprang to my mind: 1. There's something else going on, like this isn't really 802.11b, but the frames look close enough to fool my Lucent cards. Perhaps it's the Karlnet or COR/ROR software loads for lucent gear or something similar. It cannot be Breezecom FH stuff like the BA-II because that would just never be demodulated. 2. Someone goes to the trouble of inventing mac addresses that are all over the map & overriding the manufacturers defaults with them, why ? 3. This is some really shoddy manufacturer that doesn't give a hoot about using legit ethernet addresses - I suppose a minor variation on that would be a small software outfit that doesn't want to pay the IEEE for a block, but I'd recycle a dead company's oui before I just invented random numbers. My money is on some variant of option 1 above, I'd just love to know the details. > Try this link to lookup MAC address > http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml or /etc/manuf if you've ever installed ethereal. That gets stale though. I find it's easier to pull the oui list straight off the ieee site, cook it a little and keep a local oui file up to date that way with cron. > Andy: what software are you using for the map? www.mapblast.com -- andyw at pobox.com Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634