Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:45:50 -0800
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>
Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
based on the reply stream so far I guess there aren't really that
many "standards lawyers" here.
IEEE maintains a list of "AUI prefixes". You can get a copy
various places, I'd start with www.iana.org. Or, walk around
your organization and your local computer store and write down the
first three bytes on the mac address listed on the box (assuming
they document it on the box)
The problem with this is that manufacturers have the option of not
allowing the IEEE to disclose this and many (most) wireless card
makers also make wired cards that share the same AUI prefix.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
lucent and aironet (later cisco) never made wired cards so
I wouldn't expect that. also, I think that the non-ieee lists
tend to have more/better data on prefixs. I bet snort or etherpeek
or ethereal or sniffer or someone like that has a decent aui list.
also, of course, manufacturers know that no real people use network
management so why bother to document your aui?
a manufacturer who keeps their aui secret is offering to
live in a non-sales-enhancing position...
lucent and aironet (later cisco) never made wired cards so
I wouldn't expect that. also, I think that the non-ieee lists
tend to have more/better data on prefixs. I bet snort or etherpeek
or ethereal or sniffer or someone like that has a decent aui list.
they might never have made cards you could plug into your pc or mac,
per se, but cisco at least has made quite a name for itself by
manufacturing a large pile of *other* networking equipment. a fair
amount of which uses the same addressing style.
but the AUI header was assigned back when it was aironet.
3com, as it exists now, is in fact an old terminal server company
called Bridge, which mutated into a router company, which got bought
by this silly little pc ethernet card vendor called 3Com, etc.etc.etc.