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  • Detecting Wifi

    From mynameismisterbig@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 08:33:25 2018
    I have a laptop which insists on connecting to Wifi as soon as I get in, whereupon the router it's connecting to can presumably get its MAC address. I would like to stop this, but I would also like to know that I've been successful, ie. that my MAC addr
    is NOT being given out to anyone!
    I have a Linux laptop as well, which has a Wifi adapter - my question is: how do I use *this* laptop to detect the "connecting to Wifi sequence" of the above? ie. exactly WHAT this thing is giving out?

    Thanks for your help.

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  • From thenewcq@21:1/5 to mynameismisterbig@gmail.com on Thu Mar 1 21:15:16 2018
    mynameismisterbig@gmail.com wrote:

    I have a laptop which insists on connecting to Wifi as soon
    as I get in,
    whereupon the router it's connecting to can presumably get
    its MAC
    address. I would like to stop this, but I would also like
    to know that
    I've been successful, ie. that my MAC addr is NOT being
    given out to
    anyone! I have a Linux laptop as well, which has a Wifi
    adapter - my
    question is: how do I use *this* laptop to detect the
    "connecting to Wifi
    sequence" of the above? ie. exactly WHAT this thing is
    giving out?

    Thanks for your help.
    yea, dude use wireshark on the linux box

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