Re: Wireless security & MAC Adress spoofing

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-11-01 VI wrote:
> How does anybody that want to spoof a MAC address to connect to a
> wireless AP know the right MAC's in the real life?
>
> Are the MAC numbers send along in Cleartext?

Yes.

> Is sniffing the wireless network enough to get hold of the connecting
> MAC addresses?

Yes.

Ethernet is a multiple access media. A NIC accepts frames if the frame's
destination MAC matches the NIC's MAC (unless the NIC is in promisc
mode, of course).

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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