Is the MAC address for the wireless 802.11 adaptor on the iLiad easy to find?

The manual I read didn't show the MAC in any of the screen shots...

I run a MAC restricted wireless network at home.

Is not easy to find. Configuring is easy: Connect to the AP (unsuccessful due to mac filtering), look into the AP's event log, copy the MAC address.


Dude, do you even have an Iliad?

Dude, I'm getting an iLiad! :)

Seems like I have a tough nut to crack though. The Apple Airport has no event log for that kind of thing. Maybe I'll have to iStumble it.

Dude, I'm getting an iLiad! :)

Apparently you wrote 19.21% of all posts at the irex forum and a lot of stuff here, before even having an Iliad. That's awfully close to trolling / spamming for me.

Btw, does this forum support plonking?

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Btw, does this forum support plonking?
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ask and you shall receive. :wink:

Dude, I'm getting an iLiad! :)

Seems like I have a tough nut to crack though. The Apple Airport has no event log for that kind of thing. Maybe I'll have to iStumble it.

Why not wait until you have the illiad before you start worrying about this...? It might be doa...!

Is not easy to find.

So the MAC adress on the back of the device is the one for the Fast Ethernet network adaptor?

So the MAC adress on the back of the device is the one for the Fast Ethernet network adaptor?
On mine, it is. The one listed in Settings is the same.

Strange for me the one printed on the back worked fine ?

(also using a MAC restricted network at home)

Strange for me the one printed on the back worked fine ?

Weird. To be really sure, I just rechecked. I connected to iDS over Wifi and checked the AP log. The DHCP lease is given to a MAC address that is *not* the one on the Iliad's back.

Apparently you wrote 19.21% of all posts at the irex forum and a lot of stuff here, before even having an Iliad. That's awfully close to trolling / spamming for me.
The thread was started with a legitimate question. If you don't have the answer don't get mad and start throwing inaccurate words at me.

Is the MAC address for the wireless 802.11 adaptor on the iLiad easy to find?


The legitimate answer is: nope.

The illegitimate question is: Why the heck do you use this more-then-useless mac-filtering? Why can't you just switch it off, connect with you iliad, use whatever tool is at hand to get the mac and switch it back on or leave it switched off? Or use your favourite wireless traffic sniffer to listen to the things the iliad screams out over the ether? Or hack it and type ifconfig? And what we all would like to know: Why do you bother with all these thing before you can lay your hands on it and try, for god's sake?

I know you're really, really tense to finally receive your iliad - we all were. But this is no reason to fill the board with borderline marginal stuff - that's what he wanted to say with it.

Simple: your method won't work for me.

By the way, the MAC filtering works just fine for me, thank you very much.

From a corporate stand point, IT departments expect to get a document listing these types of things. Makes it easy for them to add the unit to the authorized devices list for the wired and wireless networks.

From an iLiad stand point, if irex put this info on a nice page on the device, one could place the unit on a scanner, scan it and then attach the scan to the unit's asset tracking entry.

Leverage that eInk in yet another way.

As for borderline marginal stuff, one man's borderline marginal issue is another person's "Gee I wish I had the guts to ask that question and stand up to the mean people like that, I'd like the answer too, but I don't want to get beat up if they think I'm asking a borderline marginal question."

Simple: your method won't work for me.

By the way, the MAC filtering works just fine for me, thank you very much. ...
you know, MAC filtering takes more time to manage then to get around it. Even with encryption of the packet payload, the MAC adress is readable in every packet and a attacker can simply copy a valid MAC to his card.

so, MAC filtering is simply pointless. Maybe that is the whole point of this discussion.

Hey, folks, can I suggest we take this down a notch or two? This discussion seems to be getting a bit ... over-warm, and I'm not sure that anyone means for it to....

I like the calm, collected tone of the MobileRead forum, and want to keep it that way! :happy2:

Personally, I also like the generally patient attitude toward dumb questions (I'm not saying this was one, BTW, nor am I saying it's not -- I'm just making a general statement), since I don't always know if I'm asking one! :rolleyes5

Thanks, y'all

ok.

I'm calm again.

It's just this snakeoil feeling i get every time someone talks about mac filtering and/or wep encryption. (b_k explained the problem with mac filtering, wep also gives only a feeling of security)

And insisting on keeping those if they make problems and asking for a work-around instead of disabling them makes me itchy.

But it's true, they should add the wireless mac, just like the wired mac on the sticker on the back. Or just add the info in the settings page.

It's just nowhere near the top of the list with my priorities.

And concerning borderline marginal questions: I would never beat someone up because of it :)

Nonetheless, you got the answer to your question in the first response:
Is not easy to find.

The rest of the thread was the question how you might do this anyway, and why you try to figure it out before actually trying it with an iliad. Ok, and, to be honest, some flames.

So, peace?

I am really confused how i was able to connect to my WLAN router then without any problems ?

Think i have to check my router (Netgear) cause MAC restriction should be enabled ...

I like the calm, collected tone of the MobileRead forum, and want to keep it that way! :happy2:
Couldn't have said it better :D

Thanks! I was as simple as could be and thought, that the MAC address on the back is the one to use with wlan. :rolleyes5

However, when connecting to my wlan ín unprotected mode with no WEP or MAC filters 00 16 41 ... MAC code showed up on my wlan maintenance screen (wheras the one on the back starts with 00 16 7C ..). With WEP I didn't succeed to connect. Seems that Irex is working on wlan issues for the next software upgrade. I'll try WEP again with 2.6.