Hmm just posted on this issue a few days ago. Yeah its the same in 803.11 packets as 802.3. MAC headders are before the WEP-obfuscated-payload.
First 3 octets are vendor. havent found a central databse of them yet. kb3ien On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Terry Ewing wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:46:28 -0400 > From: Terry Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [nycwireless] Identifying Wireless routers by MAC > > 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/
