Comment on Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 9 months agoYour ISP knows the Mac address of your router since it requests a public IP from them using DHCP. That’s why if you contact support they usually can confirm the brand of your router by doing an oui lookup.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Do you work in networking? How did you learn the magicks of the computer tongue?
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I only do web development, but my networking knowledge mostly comes from being the designated person to call the ISP for tech support and being in charge of setting up the WiFi in every place that I’ve lived, in addition to participating and running community scale mesh wifi tech meetups for many years (think NYCMesh except just 4 guys who never accomplished much aside from buying and flashing lots of routers with openwrt lmao)