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Looking at the wireless statistics on a TL-WR740N wireless router, I sometimes see the MAC address "00-20-00-A5-22-1A" connecting, with the current status being "STA-ASSOC".

The manual actually shows exactly this current status as example on page 52. I don't know this MAC address, and it has sent packets to the router, but I haven't seen received packets yet.

The router uses WPA/WPA2 with AES as encryption, which is what it shows when my workstation connects to the router.

Does anyone know what STA-ASSOC is, and if someone have access to the router?

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    I would think it's "Status: Associated"
    – l0c0b0x
    Sep 9, 2011 at 20:39
  • @l0c0b0x : The manual also lists something called STA-JOINED. Does that make sense in this conjunction?
    – Sandra
    Sep 9, 2011 at 21:57

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Station associated. Not sure what device it is though.

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  • What could that mean? Perhaps another wireless nearby?
    – Sandra
    Sep 9, 2011 at 21:55
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Hi I just found out what it is:

STA-ASSOC is a device that was already associate to the wi-fi router and is standing by connection (trying to connect-password changed maybe).

STA-AUTH - device awaiting authorization from router (maybe you had changed the password and the device is trying to reconnect but with the wrong password).

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00-20-00-A5-22-1A is a Lexmark print server.

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You can't MAC address filter such stations according to my knowledge. PS3 and iPod tend to take on such roles especially when MAC filtered.

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  • This does not seem to answer the question though.
    – Kevin Panko
    Nov 4, 2013 at 3:56

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