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RBK853 logging
GWell, I finally got emailing logs working - comcast has some wierd rules for SMTP. I've come to a conclusion - RBK853 is definitely a wierd box. Here's a sample log: [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.131...
As good forum posting security, it's best not to post MAC addresses of devices listed in logs or files in a public forum. The MAC address is tied to a device which nefarious users could attempt to do nefarious things too.
FURRYe38 wrote:As good forum posting security, it's best not to post MAC addresses of devices listed in logs or files in a public forum. The MAC address is tied to a device which nefarious users could attempt to do nefarious things too.
Yeah, yeah, but it's my local network and if Netgear does their job, no one's getting in.
I don't turn of ICMP responses, so if someone actually did penetrate my network they could ping sweep my probable address range and get that information easily.
Once you've gotten an address from the DHCP server you can use your IP address and subnet mask to infer the entire address range. After you've ping sweeped the entire address range, you can pick up the MAC addresses from the ARP table entries.