Ubuntu Manpage: get-oui - Fetch the arp-scan OUI file from the IEEE website (on Debian and Debian based

NAME

       get-oui  -  Fetch  the arp-scan OUI file from the IEEE website (on Debian and Debian based
       systems, data is fetched from ieee-data package)

SYNOPSIS

       get-oui [options]

DESCRIPTION

get-oui fetches the Ethernet OUI file from the IEEE website, and saves it in the format
used by arp-scan.

The OUI file contains all of the OUIs (Organizationally Unique Identifiers) that have been
registered with IEEE. Each OUI entry in the file specifies the first 24-bits of the
48-bit Ethernet hardware address, leaving the remaining 24-bits for use by the registering
organisation. For example the OUI entry "080020", registered to Sun Microsystems, applies
to any Ethernet hardware address from 08:00:20:00:00:00 to 08:00:20:ff:ff:ff inclusive.
Each OUI assignment represents a total of 2^24 (16,777,216) Ethernet addresses.

Every major Ethernet hardware vendor registers an OUI for their equipment, and larger
vendors will need to register more than one. For example, 3Com have a total of 37 OUI
entries. Organisations that only produce a small number of Ethernet devices will often
obtain an IAB registration instead. See get-iab(1) for details.

This script can be used to update the arp-scan OUI file from the latest data on the IEEE
website. Most of the Ethernet addresses in use belong to an OUI registration, so this is
the most important of the files that arp-scan uses to decode Ethernet hardware addresses.
You should therefore run get-oui occasionally to keep the arp-scan OUI file up to date.

The OUI data is fetched from the URL http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt (on
Debian and Debian based systems, data is fetched from ieee-data package) and the output
file is saved to the file ieee-oui.txt in the current directory. The URL to fetch the data
from can be changed with the -u option, and the output file name can be changed with the
-f option.

The ieee-oui.txt file that is produced by this script is used by arp-scan to determine the
Ethernet card vendor from its hardware address.

The directory that arp-scan will look for the ieee-oui.txt file depends on the options
used when it was built. If it was built using the default options, then it will look in
/usr/local/share/arp-scan.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display a brief usage message and exit.

       -f <fn>
              Write the output to the specified file instead of the default ieee-oui.txt.

       -u <URL>
              Use  the  specified  URL  to  fetch  the  raw  OUI data from instead of the default
              http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt.   (on  Debian   and   Debian   based
              systems, data is fetched from ieee-data package by default)

       -v     Display verbose progress messages.

FILES

       ieee-oui.txt
              The default output file.

EXAMPLES

       $ get-oui -v
       Renaming ieee-oui.txt to ieee-oui.txt.bak
       Fetching OUI data from http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
       Fetched 1467278 bytes
       Opening output file ieee-oui.txt
       9274 OUI entries written to file ieee-oui.txt

NOTES

       get-oui is implemented in Perl, so you need to have the Perl interpreter installed on your
       system to use it.

       get-oui uses the LWP::Simple Perl module to fetch the data from the IEEE website. You must
       have this module installed on your system for it to work. This module is available on most
       distributions, often called libwww-perl.  It is also available in source form from CPAN.

       You can use a proxy server by defining the http_proxy environment variable.

AUTHOR

       Roy Hills <Roy.Hills@nta-monitor.com>