On 18/07/13 10:40, Martin Kraus wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 09:44:34AM +0100, Klaus wrote:And the translation from the leading triple in the mac address to the company_id can be checked here: <http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/public.html>, where it then turns out that Doug's printer at 192.168.1.120 is from Epsom?The below was requested (...) And that was not decoded from a mac address. mk
I think I didn't claim it was. All I tried was to link Darac's earlier post On 17/07/13 11:15, Darac Marjal wrote: > (...) > You can then lookup the manufacturer of that network device (the > xx:xx:xx portion) to give a clue as to what the device is. > with your (Martin's) post
On 18/07/13 09:08, Martin Kraus wrote:(..) it doesn't produce names of anything, it just decodes the network card vendor from the mac address. Device names need some kind of name resolution service such as dns or netbios names used by samba. mk
-- Klaus