Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:06 AM Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > Several packages in Debian can somehow (either by embedding it or > querying it from some common database) display the MAC Vendor > information of network adapters (derived from hardware addresses). > > One example is nmap, that displays

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
Lee wrote: I haven't tried either package - I just use the file from IEEE Sure, that's directly from the source. One has to find a compromise between always using the latest version and using a limited common resources (like ieee's bandwidth in this case) in a responsible way. Thomas

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Lee
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 12:22 PM Thomas Pircher wrote: > > On 2024-03-07 10:11, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > Any idea if one or the other is preferable or newer? > > I think there is not much difference between the two files, the > ieee-data packages the data directly from the IEEE, with nmap you

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
On 2024-03-07 10:11, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Any idea if one or the other is preferable or newer? I think there is not much difference between the two files, the ieee-data packages the data directly from the IEEE, with nmap you have one intermediary project that needs to download and release

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Thu, 2024-03-07 at 09:52 +, Thomas Pircher wrote: > On 2024-03-07 09:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >     $ grep -i ^9009df /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes > >     9009DF Intel Corporate > > Alternatively, the ieee-data package also contains the OUI database: > > $ grep -i ^9009df

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
On 2024-03-07 09:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: $ grep -i ^9009df /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes 9009DF Intel Corporate Alternatively, the ieee-data package also contains the OUI database: $ grep -i ^9009df /usr/share/ieee-data/oui.txt 9009DF (base 16)Intel

Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu Mar 7, 2024 at 8:50 AM GMT, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > Several packages in Debian can somehow (either by embedding it or > querying it from some common database) display the MAC Vendor > information of network adapters (derived from hardware addresses). > > One example is nmap, that displays