<html><head></head><body><div>That's your wireless gear seeing transient stuff and looking to see if it can/should connect.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 23:11 +0000, kilpatms@comcast.net wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>email evil daemon has been run off. But I have learned that the paranoid should not spend much time wading through log files. This, clearly, is one place where a little knowledge can be dangerous.
these are sample lines:
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Mar 9 17:36:07 localhost NetworkManager[817]: <info> [1489098967.1631] device (wlp3s0): set-hw-addr: set MAC >address to 06:CE:CD:14:30:65 (scanning)
Mar 9 17:36:07 localhost kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
Mar 9 17:36:07 localhost NetworkManager[817]: <info> [1489098967.6396] device (wlp3s0): supplicant interface >state: disconnected -> disabled
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My question is: what MAC address is that? It doesn't belong to any computer on the LAN. Should I just forget about this or is someone/thing probing my laptop?
these lines with other MAC addresses show up every few minutes. Earlier I identified four different MAC addresses looked for in 30 minutes.
Sean
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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