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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...
plemans wrote:sadly, thats how it works when you use an extender.
Thank you for your input and for sharing the link to the NETGEAR support article. While it's true that extenders often exhibit this behavior of spoofing MAC addresses, Y9 it seems the issue here goes beyond the typical operation of a Wi-Fi Range Extender.
The problem isn't just about retrieving the virtual MAC address; it's more about the extender not forwarding the actual MAC address of the connected device. This is causing confusion for network monitoring tools which rely on MAC addresses to identify individual devices.
> The problem isn't just about retrieving the virtual MAC address; it's more about the
> extender not forwarding the actual MAC address of the connected device. This is
< causing confusion for network monitoring tools which rely on MAC addresses to
< identify individual devices.
Absolutely correct.