[PLUG] Network Security issue

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Dec 5 01:14:37 UTC 2023


I'd make a note of the mac address of the mystery device.

What is running on the Buffalo router? Is it the vendor firmware or
something like OpenWrt? If you have tools on the Buffalo, you have more
options to track the device down.

-- 
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 4:59 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> My wife has ESET malware protection on her Windows 7 machine.  This
> afternoon she got this message:
>
> Suspected threat blocked because of duplicate IP addresses on network.
>
> It gave an IP address that sounds familiar, and shows up in my Buffalo
> router, but only has a ? as a name. I vaguely remember 192.168.0.204,
> but can't remember what from. I've looked at all the devices I remember,
> but they all are called out in the list Buffalo shows.
>
> Any hints as to how to track down what caused that error message?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>


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