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| From | "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor |
| Date | 2024-03-07 10:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <Ifioh-eZTo-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <IfhVf-eZKn-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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 the device vendor when scanning.
>
> Is there some commandline tool doing this directly in Debian? I know
> that there are websites that offer this as a service, but sometimes a
> CLI is more convenient.
>
> Alternatively, and if this information is stored in some shared
> databases, can this be queried e.g. from a Pyhton script? If so, how?
The nmap-common package ships the DB that nmap queries in a plain text
format: /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes
Example
$ ip link show wlp0s20f3 | grep ether
link/ether 90:09:df:ba:0c:cf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$ grep -i ^9009df /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes
9009DF Intel Corporate
HTH,
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Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-03-07 10:10 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2024-03-07 10:40 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Thomas Pircher <thp.debian@p5r.uk> - 2024-03-07 11:00 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-03-07 11:30 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Thomas Pircher <thp.debian@p5r.uk> - 2024-03-07 16:10 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-07 18:50 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Thomas Pircher <thp.debian@p5r.uk> - 2024-03-07 22:30 +0100
Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-03-08 01:40 +0100
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