Part of what you're saying isn't clear to me. Do you have the concept of MAC addresses
and IP addresses
mixed up? *.98.65
looks like part of an IP address, not a MAC address. A MAC address would look like this: *:98:65
. Colon vs. period.
If you do have the concept mixed up, then what connects to a router has little to do with what is inside of a router. In this case, *:98:65
and *:98:66
are likely part of your router's internal components. The router, and each physical interface
inside the router, has it's own MAC address
.
- The router itself is likely
*:98:65
- The
local area network interface
is likely *:98:66
- You probably have a third somewhere for your
wireless network interface
. It may be something like *:98:6A
.
It all depends on how many interfaces are inside the router. By design, each interface is supposed to have it's own MAC address, and these are supposed to be unique, although MAC spoofing is pretty easy.
Now, when a wireless device connects to a router, it's MAC address - spoofed or otherwise - will be registered with the router. The router's administration page should show this, unless it's firmware
has been modified to hide the connected device from the page, while still acting normally.
However, if your router itself is showing that it has two MAC addresses as being part of it (it probably has three if it's wireless), then it means there are at least one interface inside your router, which includes the router itself.
If not, could you show us a screenshot of what you're looking at?