Re: How to know which MAC address is the true client that connect to the wireless network?

[Chin Shi Hong <cshong87 () gmail com>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Yorian Wiltjer <zentinel17 () gmail com>wrote:

> Chin,
>
> A normal wireless access point bridges 802.3 (wired) to 802.11 (wireless).
> Thanks to this bridge wireshark see both wiresless clients and wired
> clients via the WAP.
> I can think off two ways to get rid off the MAC's from wired cards.
>
> One unplug the WAP  from your wired network.
>
> OR
>
> Use a router.
> With a router all your wired MAC will be hidden behind the MAC off the
> router.
> Just a simple router would do.
>
> Hope its helps,
> Yorian
>
>
> 2010/11/14 Chin Shi Hong <cshong87 () gmail com>:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Stephen Fisher <
> steve () stephen-fisher com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:24:05PM +0800, Chin Shi Hong wrote:
> > >
> > > > are the real wireless client that connect to the wireless network
> > > > AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF, or it may be only one of them are the real wireless
> > > > client connect to the wireless network AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF. How can I
> > > > know which one is the real wireless client connected to wireless
> > > > network AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF?
> > >
> > > I don't understand your question; why would any of the addresses not be
> > > real ones?
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> > My "real wireless client" mean the computer connected to the network
> using
> > wireless, not through other method.
> >
> > This is because I had done some testings. I tested with 2 computers.
> First
> > computer connected to my wireless router by using wireless network
> adapter,
> > while the second computer connected to my wireless router using wired
> > connection. I had noticed that the MAC Address of the wired network
> adapter
> > in second computer (the one using wired) are recorded as well, either as
> > source address or destination address.
> >
> > This make me very hard to program my application to detect which MAC
> address
> > is the MAC address of the wireless network adapter, not the wired network
> > adapter.
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I am using router, and wireshark still see the MAC address of wired
computer.

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