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Speaking about experiments in a live network...

2002-07-14 23:04:41
Somebody is running a number of ad-hoc nodes (or one chameleon-style node) in the 802.11b airspace of the IETF meeting. This is bad enough as it is not coordinated with the site's frequency plan. It is even worse when at least one of the nodes uses the SSID "IETF", which causes all Macs (and a sizable number of Lucent drivers) to oscillate between their ad-hoc network and the IETF network.

Log attached. The culprit nodes apparently use generated local addresses (02 bit in MAC address set, rest seems somewhat random).

Please turn it off.

Since the most frequent SSID is "pulver.com", I interpret this as the knife dripping with blood (but then Jeff could still be innocent even if the knife is engraved with his DNS name :-).

Gruesse, Carsten
IETF              00:02:2D:00:09:DC     7       46      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:00:0A:84     6       43      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:00:14:5E     1       25      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:00:19:6C     9       27      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:2D:A3:9C     10      47      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:4F:99:42     3       57      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:4F:99:56     6       24      Managed
IETF              00:02:2D:50:22:5D     10      25      Managed
IETF              00:60:1D:23:78:13     5       42      Managed
IETF              00:60:1D:23:AA:D7     1       28      Managed

IETF              02:A0:41:A0:61:1C     11      79      Ad-hoc
<<<
Wireless Network  02:05:5D:2C:6C:3D     1       26      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:0A:56:0B:50:A9     10      46      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:15:E3:14:E5:B6     10      49      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:18:09:19:0F:BB     10      41      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:1D:4F:1C:49:BE     10      45      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:1F:0B:1E:0D:BC     10      46      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:21:95:20:93:82     10      51      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:28:7A:29:7C:8B     10      48      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:55:00:54:06:F6     10      46      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:58:6D:59:6B:FB     10      42      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:5D:2A:5C:2C:FE     10      46      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:6A:10:6B:16:C9     10      49      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:79:C4:78:C2:DA     10      49      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:96:3A:97:3C:35     10      45      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:AB:55:AA:53:08     10      47      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:C2:97:C3:91:61     10      48      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:C2:98:C3:9E:61     10      39      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:C5:8B:C4:8D:66     10      41      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:CC:21:CD:27:6F     10      40      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:CD:CB:CC:CD:6E     10      48      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:DD:16:DC:10:7E     10      41      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:E9:97:E8:91:4A     10      49      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        02:EB:18:EA:1E:48     10      42      Ad-hoc
pulver.com        9E:01:B7:01:C4:03     6       41      Ad-hoc