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<blockquote data-quote="Ember1205" data-source="post: 1780303" data-attributes="member: 374272"><p>I would be about 99% certain in the presumption that the rogue address of Alien is internal to your -modem-. Why?</p><p></p><p>You showed us that the .1 gateway address correlated to a hardware address of 5c:8f:e0:e7:61:c3. If you take the first six characters of that (as 5c:8f:e0) and look it up online, it resolves out to "ArrisGro ARRIS Group Inc." That makes sense since it's a modem. If you take the hardware address that you found for the .252 address (0:0:ca:1:2:3) and expand it out so that it's proper, you get 00:00:ca:01:02:03. If you do the same lookup again using 00:00:ca, that ALSO resolves out to "ArrisGro ARRIS Group Inc."</p><p></p><p>I looked up the modem model that you provided way back, and see that it's a combination modem, phone gateway, and wireless router (which you've included here as well). I also see that there's little useful information on the various addresses and such. There should be a label on the back of the modem, however, that will list at least ONE of the above MAC addresses (probably not the Alien one). If you haven't checked already, that's an easy step.</p><p></p><p>The only reason I could see you possibly seeing two IP Addresses and MAC addresses on your device is if the modem were set up in Bridge Mode as opposed to Standard mode. If it -IS- set up in bridge mode, then you would potentially be able to see the external AND internal MAC addresses of the device, and it could be using two IP Addresses (one for each) as well.</p><p></p><p>I'm going with "you're ok and it's not an issue".</p><p></p><p>One other thing... This may be a case of semantics, but the Alien address wouldn't be considered hardwired. It's internal to the modem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ember1205, post: 1780303, member: 374272"] I would be about 99% certain in the presumption that the rogue address of Alien is internal to your -modem-. Why? You showed us that the .1 gateway address correlated to a hardware address of 5c:8f:e0:e7:61:c3. If you take the first six characters of that (as 5c:8f:e0) and look it up online, it resolves out to "ArrisGro ARRIS Group Inc." That makes sense since it's a modem. If you take the hardware address that you found for the .252 address (0:0:ca:1:2:3) and expand it out so that it's proper, you get 00:00:ca:01:02:03. If you do the same lookup again using 00:00:ca, that ALSO resolves out to "ArrisGro ARRIS Group Inc." I looked up the modem model that you provided way back, and see that it's a combination modem, phone gateway, and wireless router (which you've included here as well). I also see that there's little useful information on the various addresses and such. There should be a label on the back of the modem, however, that will list at least ONE of the above MAC addresses (probably not the Alien one). If you haven't checked already, that's an easy step. The only reason I could see you possibly seeing two IP Addresses and MAC addresses on your device is if the modem were set up in Bridge Mode as opposed to Standard mode. If it -IS- set up in bridge mode, then you would potentially be able to see the external AND internal MAC addresses of the device, and it could be using two IP Addresses (one for each) as well. I'm going with "you're ok and it's not an issue". One other thing... This may be a case of semantics, but the Alien address wouldn't be considered hardwired. It's internal to the modem. [/QUOTE]
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