yawp, MAC address are split up/assigned by manufacturer, in fact it's pretty much how linux tells which vendor's card/chipset you are using by matching up the vendor against the MAC's string.
search google for something like "MAC address string vendor list" and you should be able to find some useful listings. the open-source unix app ettercap (ettercap.sourceforge.net) has a built in 'fingerprinting' functionality based on matching MAC strings w/vendor's list. as far as the specific model goes, that's kinda hit-or-miss (a lot more miss). best intutive guess off the MAC would be to know of several of other confirmed MAC addresses for the same vendor/model and the target you're guessing falls within that range since they're usually run off the same production line. On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Terry Ewing wrote: > All, > Is there a good way to identify the brand of wireless gateway from the > MAC address? I'm not sure if WEP is encapsulated within the Ethernet packet > or around the ethernet packet so maybe this question is not even valid, but > shouldn't I be able to look up the MAC address of the AP and find the > manufacturer and possibly the model? I know wired Ethernet cards have the > first few bytes of the MAC address the same for all cards manufactured by > the same vendor. I'd assume the same is true with wireless. Is it? > > Thanks! > -Terry > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
