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 have > one intermediary project that needs to download and release the file > before Debian can pick it up. > > Then on the other hand, the ieee-data package is one minor version > behind on the data, while the nmap file was modified ~6 months ago in > Debian's VCS. > > The only difference I can see is that with the ieee-data package you get > some visibility which upstream version was used, while it would take > more effort to trace that back in the nmap case.
I haven't tried either package - I just use the file from IEEE https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt