Mysterious IP address/Device In Network Map

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

 

[John Fitzgerald]

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Strange. This morning I had an oddity, my desktop is hard wired and has a wifi adapter that is disabled in device management. The connection field showed 3 people being online (have a guest network) but somehow the desktop listed 2 items. It should only show the NIC and not the disabled adapter as a client. I rebooted and so far it has not come back. Perhaps after not making frequent reboots, somehow it discovers what is disabled???

 

[ColinTaylor]

Got any Netgear equipment, e.g. repeaters?

 

[martinr]

Does this help at all?

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/r...-9-is-now-available.54843/page-25#post-468260

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Got any Netgear equipment, e.g. repeaters?

No I do not have a netgear anything.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

Does this help at all?

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/r...-9-is-now-available.54843/page-25#post-468260

Year plus old thread and ASUS is perpetuating the error, no fix?

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Year plus old thread and ASUS is perpetuating the error, no fix?

except now it appears to be calling it Netgear. I guess that is how they have been hiding it.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

except now it appears to be calling it Netgear. I guess that is how they have been hiding it.

Start knocking on neighbors doors. Sir, do you have any Netgear equipment?

 

[ColinTaylor]

except now it appears to be calling it Netgear. I guess that is how they have been hiding it.

Do you have an RT-AC87U then?

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Do you have an RT-AC87U then?

No

 

[John Fitzgerald]

No

Is there a dark colored van near the house?

 

[ColinTaylor]

No

Then it's something different. What router are you seeing this on?

 

[dave14305]

Block the MAC via MAC filter and see who (if anyone) comes crying.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Block the MAC via MAC filter and see who (if anyone) comes crying.

I like this idea. Though I am pretty sure if they had enough skill to hack into my network, this would not take much skill to circumvent.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Then it's something different. What router are you seeing this on?

This is on a RTAC3100

 

[John Fitzgerald]

Could the router be spoofed or there be a man in the middle attack? via phone?

 

[eclp]

Just thoughts. Maybe you had a Netgear device a long time ago? And have you ever reset the router to factory settings?

 

[john9527]

Do you have a Netgear modem? (That MAC really does belong to Netgear).

Another speculation....it could be a remnant of somebody who tried to connect and couldn't (it's a link-local ipv4 address).

 

[ChatmanR]

Someone with a Netgear adapter tried to connect; maybe as ad hoc? Or a vpn remnant from a tunnel adapter?

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Do you have a Netgear modem? (That MAC really does belong to Netgear).

Another speculation....it could be a remnant of somebody who tried to connect and couldn't (it's a link-local ipv4 address).

Yea it is not in my Map any more after reboot, So i suspect someone tried to access my network. I have no netgear products. I left that scene after Merlin started production.