The first several digits of a MAC address (Ethernet ID) are specific to its manufacturer/model. I won't ask what's the best way to look these up since it's subjective… but I'd love to know if any here has found a particularly efficient resource to do this.
Router – A nice tool to look up make/model via MAC address
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Best Answer
When online I use MAC_Find: - it's helpful if you're only looking up one or two.
If you're wanting to look up a larger amount or a list of MAC addresses it will be easier to run a script to grab the line (using
grep
or something similar) from IEEE's OUI List. Note that the oui.txt file seperates the MAC address by dashes rather than colons.To make life a bit more fun here's a shell script to get the manufacturer's from whatever
arp
will give you:Example Output: