Wireshark makes that information easy to find by performing an automatic OUI lookup on every captured frame. Note: I know that using the web browser I can google for the MAC's first 3 pairs, but I would like some command-line method, so I could script it or use via remote login (SSH).Sometimes it’s useful to know the manufacturer of a given network adapter.

What is the proper command-line way to perform this search? f Force the update, even if the file is newer than 5 days.ĭirectory holding symbolic links to oui.txt and iab.txtīut if I search for IPs on my network: sudo netdiscover -i eth1ĩ2 Captured ARP Req/Rep packets, from 12 hosts.

This utility requires curl, wget or libwww-perl to be installed. Update-oui fetches the current version of the OUI and IAB lists from Update-oui - download new version of the OUI and IAB lists I have found some tools that seems to update the OUI MAC address vendor database on my system, like get-oui, airodump-ng-oui-update or update-oui : update-oui(8) OUI update-oui(8)

Wireshark oui tool