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 th

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 have

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 t

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 /u

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 Corp

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

Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor

2024-03-07 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hi! 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 the device vendor when scanning. Is there some commandline to