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user1789326
user1789326

Reputation: 151

How to know if MAC address is attached to wireless card or ethernet card?

I'm performing network monitoring with a software developed by my company. For each machine, I have the mac address of the card used to connect to the network.

I'm looking for a way to know, from the MAC address (for example), if the card is an Ethernet card or a wireless card.

I can use nmap and openvas sensors results in my analysis.

The final goal is to get a hint to know if the machine is a workstation or a laptop.

I'm programming in python, but any other solution is welcome.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1453

Answers (1)

cha0site
cha0site

Reputation: 10717

This is the canonical list of NIC vendors: http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt

You could use this list to get the vendor from a MAC address, then make some educated guesses. For example, Atmel makes mostly Wireless NICs.

Upvotes: 1

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