[14849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAC address assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Foster)
Tue Jan 27 00:29:15 1998
From: Dan Foster <dsf@frontiernet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980126152641.6904w-100000@precipice.v-site.net> from Geoff White at "Jan 26, 98 03:32:32 pm"
To: geoffw@precipice.v-site.net (Geoff White)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:52:15 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dsf@frontiernet.net, nanog@merit.edu
Hot Diggety! On a dark and stormy night, Geoff White was rumored to have said...
> Where can I find a list of MAC (ethernet) address assignments.
> i.e. blocks of addresses were assigned to various companies.
> for example 8:0:20:xx:xx:xx is most likely a Sun machine
00:c0:7b:xx:xx:xx is some form of ascend router.
> I'm trying to track down someone who is using an IP address that
> they should not be using and all I have is their MAC address
> (00:20:af:f2:2c:79)
It's been useful for me on more than one occasion.
http://standards.ieee.org/db/oui/
You enter it as: 00-20-af in the search field.
Incidentially, 00:20:af is a 3com device. Good luck!
-Dan
