Every network card has a MAC-address which distinctly identifies the device. The address is divided to six octets and usually octet dividers are expressed as colons or dashes. The first three octets identifies the vendor. Vendors are contolled by IEEE standards association.
At times there is a need to check the vendor of an associated client in LAN or just to check the vendor in generally.The first implementation of this program was done in Python but I wanted to refresh my memory and decided to port the program to C language also. Program uses CURL library for fetching the newest vendors file. CURL lib was chosen since it's well written, BSD licensed and actively developed.
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libcurl-dev
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(maybe) libbsd-dev
Curl developer libraries are needed and therefore those should be present. In Debian based system, check can be done with the following command:
dpkg -l |grep -i libcurl |grep dev
If if returns nothing, your system likely lacks support. In Ubuntu 11.04 functionality can be achieved this way:
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
Then follow the steps below.
Get the source code:
git clone [email protected]:weezel/macvendor.git
Go to source code directory:
cd macvendor
Build and compile macvendor and move macvendor
binary under $HOME/bin
make
Search vendor for 00:00:00:00:00:00
MAC-address:
macvendor 00:00:00:00:00:00
Update vendors database:
macvendor -u