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The Juneau Linux Users Group
This script was developed to identify the equipment manufacturer based on mac address.
#!/bin/bash
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# id-mac.sh
# identifies the equipment manufacturer based on mac address.
# Depends on a current copy of oui.txt from http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
# Depends on the arping utility (unfortunately run as root -- use sudo)
# James Zuelow // Juneau Linux Users Group
# 28 April 2006
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if [[ -z $1 ]]
then
echo "Useage: id-mac.sh (IP ADDRESS)"
exit 1
else
OUI=/root/data/oui.txt
MACID=`arping -c 1 $1 | awk '/index=0/ { print $4 }' | cut -c -8 | sed s/:/-/g`
MANID=`grep -i ${MACID} ${OUI}`
if [[ -z ${MANID} ]]
then
MANID="${MACID} (hex) UNKNOWN"
fi
echo "Manufacturer of device at $1 is:"
echo ${MANID}
exit 0
fi