On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> > This may have come up before, but does anyone know of a registry of MAC
> > addresses?
> 
>       http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
> 

Outstanding!  This confirms my suspicion that the offending device is a
Cisco something-or-other.  Time to flog the WAN guy... ;)

>   Another good tool for this situation is the Ethereal network analyzer.  
> When you have name resolution turned on, it will lookup MAC OUIs
> (Organizationally Unique Identifiers) against an internal database, and give
> the matching name.
> 
>       http://www.ethereal.com

Great tool.  Didn't think of it...  I've seen it miss a lot though.

Thanks dude.  Knew you were good for something... :D

-- 
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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