How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix

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Re: How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix by gaal (Parson) on May 19, 2005 at 14:38 UTC
Perl doesn't supply such a method built-in, but it's fairly easy to use the data supplied here to look up vendors by OUIs (the first 24 bits in the Ethernet MAC).	[reply]
Re^2: How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix (Net::MAC::Vendor) by ChemBoy (Priest) on May 19, 2005 at 14:49 UTC
Good pointer—I think the best option for programmatic use is probably brian_d_foy's Net::MAC::Vendor, which appears to be a platform-independent Perl interface to that data. If God had meant us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads. --Michael Flanders	[reply]
Re: How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix by Zaxo (Archbishop) on May 19, 2005 at 14:35 UTC
The `/sbin/lspci` utility is handy on Linux. I'm not sure how portable it is. `my @nics = do { open my $pci, '-\|', '/sbin/lspci' or die $!; grep { /Ethernet controller/ } <$pci>; }; # 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cycl +one] (rev 30)` [download] After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix by hatter (Pilgrim) on May 19, 2005 at 14:55 UTC
For systems which don't have `lspci`, or if you need to know which NIC refers to which eth0/le0/bge0/etc, `ifconfig` on some systems will give you the MAC. You may well have to try and range of places for different OSs though, I don't know any one source. `the hatter`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix by davis (Vicar) on May 19, 2005 at 15:10 UTC
On HP-UX systems the nic manufacturer will be HP. They might use a different chipset, but it should always be OEMed by HP. If you really want to go nuts, you could try parsing the output of the `lanadmin` command. I've really got to ask though, why would you want to do this? It sounds like a Bad Idea. davis Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.	[reply]
Re: How to get NIC Manufactorer on Unix by naChoZ (Curate) on May 19, 2005 at 15:40 UTC
In Solaris, I believe (don't have immediate access to a Sun box just now) it displays mfg info with prtdiag. `/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v` -- naChoZ Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?	[reply] [d/l]