[ale] electronic hell

[Jim Kinney]

That's your wireless gear seeing transient stuff and looking to see if
it can/should connect.

On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 23:11 +0000, kilpatms at comcast.net wrote:
> 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:
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 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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James P. Kinney III

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