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lippard
May 13, 2025Tutor
WAX620 V10.8.13.2 generating apparently bogus auth messages
I'm seeing messages for the MAC address of a Tuya Smart device authenticating and deauthenticating repeatedly to one of my SSIDs. There is no such device in my house. Is this a neighbor's device or a...
lippard
May 13, 2025Tutor
BTW, also see log messages via syslog that say:
kernel: [180817.099242] ieee80211_send_deauth: [wifi0vap0]: Sending deauth to a8:80:55:3c:be:c5 with reason 2
which I believe means previous auth no longer valid.
lippard
May 15, 2025Tutor
This sequence of log entries suggests that MAC address filters are not always effective (this MAC is denied on all SSIDs):
May 15 16:42:08 kernel: [167212.376375] wifi0vap0: [a8:80:55:3c:be:c5] authentication disallowed by ACL
May 15 16:42:04 kernel: [167208.501885] wifi0vap2: [a8:80:55:3c:be:c5] authentication disallowed by ACL
May 15 16:42:04 kernel: [167208.499060] wifi0vap0: [a8:80:55:3c:be:c5] authentication disallowed by ACL
May 15 16:42:04 hostapd: wifi0vap2: STA a8:80:55:3c:be:c5 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
May 15 16:42:04 kernel: [167208.488041] wifi0vap0: [a8:80:55:3c:be:c5] authentication disallowed by ACL
May 15 16:42:00 kernel: [167204.607140] wifi0vap2: [a8:80:55:3c:be:c5] authentication disallowed by ACL
May 15 16:42:00 kernel: [167204.598455] wifi0vap0: [a8:80:55:3c:be:c5] authentication disallowed by ACL
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