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Undesirable spoofed MAC addresses on WiFi Extenders
I have two WiFi extenders, an EAX15 and a fairly ancient WNCE3001. Both of them exhibit the same undesirable behavior. In both cases, I am actually not using them as extenders but merely to prov...
sadly, thats how it works when you use an extender.
Thank you for the reply. The article you linked is a bit different than my situation I think, though it is a bit confusing.
The article seems to talk about the the MAC addresses for wireless devices connected to the extender. I am not using the extender that way - the attached devices are connected only to the ethernet port of the adapter, not wirelessly.
The article also seems to say that the attached devices get a virtual MAC address which is different from the MAC address of the extender. That would be fine with me, as long as the MAC address of the attached devices were not the same as the MAC address of the extender. Supplying identical MAC addresses for different IPs is a recipe for confusion.
Do you know the rationale for this strange MAC choice? I can't think of a scenario where it is beneficial.
Again, thank you.