Re: How to get the MAC address of an ANTENNA on my roof

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:26:28 +0000 (UTC), in
<(E-Mail Removed)>, Brent
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Here's a summary of the proposed methods to obtain the MAC address of the
>ethernet card on the rooftop antenna box.
>
>1. Install WinPcap
>2. Install Wireshark and/or Airsnare
>3. Sniff for the MAC address of the etherner card on the roof
>
>i. Install Linux
>ii. Install Kismet
>iii. Sniff for the MAC address of the etherner card on the roof
>
>a. Open the box up to find the manufacturer (or ask the ISP)
>b. Cross reference the manufacturer to obtain the first half of the MAC
>c. Combine that with the already known 2nd half of the MAC address
>
>I. Query the existing Linksys WRT54G router for the Gateway IP
>II. Replace the router with the PC
>III. Query the rooftop ethernet card/antenna for the MAC address
>
>There was also a suggestion from Jeff to sniff "traffic" with Netstumbler,
>which, after googling, I "think" Jeff means to do the following:
>
>A. Hack Netstumbler with NetCrumbler (I tried but it hung my system badly)
>B. Once hacked, use NetCrumbler to query "traffic"
>C. Pull the rooftop ethernet card's MAC address out of that queried traffic
>
>One of these method should work. I'll report back with the results.

Your "antenna" device might actually be a "WISP [mode] Router",
effectively (a) wireless Ethernet client bridge + (b) wired NAT router.
If so, "arp" of the "gateway" address should give you the MAC address of
the wired side of the router, which should have the manufacturer code.

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