mac-vendor.5

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.TH MAC-VENDOR 5 "March 30, 2007"
.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the man page.
.SH NAME
mac-vendor \- Ethernet vendor file for arp-scan
.SH SYNOPSIS
.I mac-vendor.txt
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I mac-vendor.txt
contains Ethernet MAC to vendor string mappings for
.BR arp-scan .
It is used in addition to the IEEE OUI and IAB listings in
.I ieee-oui.txt
and
.IR ieee-iab.txt .
It is for MAC-vendor mappings that are not covered by the IEEE manufacturer
listings.
.PP
Each line in the
.I mac-vendor.txt
file contains a MAC-vendor mapping in the form:
.PP
.nf
<MAC-Prefix><TAB><Vendor>
.fi
.PP
Where <MAC-Prefix> is the prefix of the MAC address in hex, and <Vendor>
is the name of the vendor.  The prefix can be of any length from two hex
digits (one octet) to twelve hex digits (six octets, the entire Ethernet
hardware address).  The alphabetic hex characters [A-F] must be entered
in upper case.
.PP
For example:
.nf
012345    would match 01:23:45:xx:xx:xx, where xx represents any value;
0123456   would match 01:23:45:6x:xx:xx; and
01234567  would match 01:23:45:67:xx:xx.
.fi
.PP
Blank lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
.PP
The order of entries in the file is not important.
.B arp-scan
will attempt to match larger prefixes before trying to match smaller ones, and
will stop at the first match.
.SH FILES
.I /usr/local/share/arp-scan/mac-vendor.txt
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
# From nmap Debian bug report #369681 dated 31 May 2006
525400  QEMU
B0C420  Bochs

# From RFC 2338: 00-00-5E-00-01-{VRID}
00005E0001      VRRP (last octet is VRID)

# Microsoft WLBS (Windows NT Load Balancing Service)
# http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/acs/reskit/acrkappb.mspx
02BF    Microsoft WLBS (last four octets are IP address)
.fi
.SH AUTHOR
Roy Hills <Roy.Hills@nta-monitor.com>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.TP
.BR arp-scan (1)
.TP
.BR get-oui (1)
.TP
.BR get-iab (1)
.TP
.BR arp-fingerprint (1)
.PP
.I http://www.nta-monitor.com/wiki/
The arp-scan wiki page.