Re: Commandline client to lookup MAC vendor
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
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