NAME

       massagevendor - convert the ethernet vendor codes master list to arpwatch format

SYNOPSIS

       massagevendor vendorfile

DESCRIPTION

       massagevendor is a program that converts a text file containing ethernet vendor codes into a format
       suitable for use by arpwatch(8) and arpsnmp(8).  The input vendorfile is a master text file containing
       vendor codes. The output is sent to stdout.  Each line of the vendorfile is expected to have a six digit
       hexadecimal vendor code followed by spaces followed by the name of the manufacturer.

       All ethernet devices have a unique identifier which includes a vendor code specifying the manufacturer of
       the device. In normal operation arpwatch(8) and arpsnmp(8) use the file ethercodes.dat to report this
       vendor code.  massagevendor is used to generate the ethercodes.dat file from text files containing these
       vendor codes.

       Locations where an ethernet vendor codes master text file can be obtained are given below.

FILES

       /usr/share/arpwatch - default location of the ethernet vendor list
       ethercodes.dat - file containing the list of ethernet vendor codes

SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), arpsnmp(8)

NOTES

       Sources for ethernet vendor codes seen in the wild are

              http://map-ne.com/Ethernet/vendor.html
              ftp://ftp.cavebear.com/pub/Ethernet.txt
              http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/vendor.html

       Useful for comparison or completeness are the
       ethernet vendor codes as assigned
       by the IEEE which can be found at

              http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov.

AUTHORS

       Craig  Leres  of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of Califor‐
       nia, Berkeley, CA.

       The current version is available via anonymous ftp:

              ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz

       This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann.

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