#Mac address vendor codes lookup mac
Within the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network model, MAC addresses are used in the medium access control protocol sublayer of the data link layer. This use is common in most IEEE 802 networking technologies, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
#Mac address vendor codes lookup how to
Now I want the list of Vendors registered for every such Prefix, but how to get it?.So if my MAC Address is ’48-4D-7E-E6-A8-47′ then the first 6 digits (Prefix) can be easily extracted like MAC addresses are stored/burned on the device during the manufacturing process and are designed to not to be modified.The first 6 digits (24 bits) of a MAC Address is called as ‘Prefix’, which are Manufacturers bits registered in IEEE database unique to a vendor, somewhat like in below format – and next 6 digits are Device unique identifiers, following are 3 formats used to represent a MAC address –.
Yesterday while troubleshooting a network issue, I realized that if I can know the vendor of a MAC Address, then I could understand if it’s a Dell Router, a VMWare virtual NIC or a Dell server then maybe it will make life a bit easy, like in the following example. Introduction to ‘Get MAC Vendor using PowerShell’: