standards.ieee.org — The oui is the first 6 digits of a MAC address (FYI).Using firefox with the Advanced option "Begin Finding when you being typing" checked makes searching for stuff really easy. Just type the six hex digits and you know who really made that NIC.Reasons for not digging this are encouraged in the comments.
Dec 31, 2005 View in Crawl 4
wizzatJan 1, 2006
::sigh:: ok... it hates that. hold on: mac=self.getet('mac') p=re.compile('[:\-. ]') mac=p.sub('', mac)[0:6] webbrowser.open(" <a class="user" href="http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch?%s">http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch?%s"</a> % mac)
siroccoJan 1, 2006
I may never actually take advantage of this, but it's Good To Know (tm). Digg++;
genghis1Jan 1, 2006
The MAC address gives a unique ID at layer 2 of the OSI model. Layer 3 uses the IP address.FYI
ccheathJan 1, 2006Submitter
oh --- and i can't believe other people blogged this! now that's weird/crazy
falfaJan 1, 2006
"If you did not Know this you do not deserve to own a computer."If you haven't memorized the whole list you do not deserve to own or even use a computer!
syurjJan 1, 2006
No digg. This info has been around forever. Anyone that has even *heard of* the A+ exam knows this. Not to mention people with ACTUAL experience.
luke__Jan 2, 2006
I didn't digg because you wrote that comment about saying why i didn't digg. it made me not want to digg
ccheathSep 9, 2006Submitter
add in 6 = discover and you've got just about a complete list there
Closed AccountOct 12, 2008
Hmm, fetching 1.8M of text every time you'd like to know an OUI assignment is a bit decadent. ;-)I use a small piece of shell to do the searching on a local copy of oui.txt, like I have described here: <a class="user" href="http://isquared.nl/index.html?mac2vendor">http://isquared.nl/index.html?mac2vendor</a>