GTA02 MAC addresses

Harald Welte laforge at openmoko.org
Mon Jan 14 23:31:26 CET 2008


On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:35:41PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> > Now sure, people can determine that a neo1973 is used by looking at the
> > OUI prefix, and then if they have the Wifi MAC, they can predict the
> > bluetooth or ethernet-over-usb MAC.
> 
> It would only be BT <-> EoUSB. For WLAN, I think we should just use
> the address in the "ROM" of the WLAN module.

ok, make sense.  I don't see any issues here.  Ethernet-over-USB MAC
addresses never leave the virtual ethernet segment on that local USB
bus.  So no way anyone could accidentially pick that one up without
physically connecting to the device.

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- Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>          	        http://openmoko.org/
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