Sanitized IEEE OUI Data (oui.txt)
The IEEE oui.txt file has become somewhat inconsistent over the years and subsequently requires subvention for use in network infrastructure documentation and reporting. In response to this we have produced a daily sanitized edition that is available for download in bzip2, gzip, Zip and ASCII text.
Our sanitizing process performs Title Case conversion of legacy all UPPERCASE OUI records, fixes for vendor name inconsistencies, spelling corrections, removal of superfluous and erroneous data artifacts that have crept into the original daily generated IEEE oui.txt over time.
The oui.txt file is located in /usr/share/misc/ on most Linux distributions.
oui.txt Downloads
Sanitized oui.txt.bz2 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:02:28 +0000 • 963.3 kB (963,294 bytes) • bzip2
Sanitized oui.txt.gz Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:02:28 +0000 • 1.4 MB (1,355,899 bytes) • gzip
Sanitized oui.txt.zip Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:02:28 +0000 • 1.4 MB (1,356,037 bytes) • Zip
Sanitized oui.txt Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:02:28 +0000 • 5.0 MB (5,037,451 bytes) • ASCII
Orig. IEEE oui.txtUpdated daily and available on the IEEE website • ASCII
Sanitized IEEE OUI Data (oui.txt) Update Client Download
Sanitized IEEE OUI Data (oui.txt) Update Client sanitized-oui.txt-update v1.03
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:30:12 +0000 • 4.0 kB (4,039 bytes) • bash shell script
oui.txt Comparison
A juxtaposition comparison of the original and sanitized oui.txt files can be attained using sdiff from the GNU diffutils package.
sdiff -Wia original_oui.txt sanitized_oui.txt | lessNmap MAC Prefixes
We also maintain and have made available a nmap-mac-prefixes file created from the sanitized oui.txt edition with abridging vendor name logic applied.
nmap-mac-prefixes Download
nmap-mac-prefixes Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:02:31 +0000 • 612.3 kB (612,305 bytes) • ASCII
Nmap MAC Address Scan
The nmap-mac-prefixes file is used by Nmap to output meaningful OUI vendor names for MAC addresses it detects by matching the three-byte prefix taken from the MAC address and looking for a match in nmap-mac-prefixes file. It's also used in other nmap features. The Nmap nmap-mac-prefixes file can typically be found in /usr/share/nmap/ on most Linux distributions.
An example of this can be seen by performing a nmap scan of a local network. In this example the 192.168.0.0/24 LAN segment is scanned using the following:
nmap -n -sP -PS -PE -PP -PM 192.168.0.0/24 | grep MACephor ~ # nmap -n -sP -PS -PE -PP -PM 192.168.0.0/24 | grep MAC MAC Address:
Arpwatch ethercodes.dat
Arpwatch is an Ethernet monitor tool by Network Research Group (NRG). The ethercodes.dat distributed with the NRG Arpwatch package archive is somewhat dated, Jul 22, 2006. The format of this data file is similar enough to the nmap-mac-prefixes file that it is rather trivial to generate an updated ethercodes.dat from it.
See Updating ethercodes.dat Ethernet vendor codes on the DTU IT Wiki for a working example.
The ethercodes.dat file can be found in /usr/share/arpwatch/ or /var/lib/arpwatch/ on most installations.
ethercodes.dat Download
ethercodes.dat Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:02:31 +0000 • 712.9 kB (712,943 bytes) • ASCII
Arp-scan ieee-oui.txt
Arp-scan is a local network ARP host scanning and fingerprinting tool.
The arp-scan package provides a Perl script to update it's ieee-oui.txt file. The default URL is that of the original IEEE oui.txt data. The -u parameter for get-oui can be used to specify the URL to fetch the raw OUI data from instead of the default.
Updating arp-scan ieee-oui.txt
The arp-scan ieee-oui.txt data file in /usr/share/arp-scan/ or /usr/local/share/arp-scan/ can be updated with the latest sanitized oui.txt data with the following:
cd /usr/share/arp-scan/ && get-oui -u https://linuxnet.ca/ieee/oui.txtIf you've recently updated the oui.txt file on the localhost, you can update the arp-scan /usr/share/arp-scan/ieee-oui.txt file using the local oui.txt file as follows:
cd /usr/share/arp-scan/ && get-oui -u file:///usr/share/misc/oui.txtAlternative arp-scan using nmap-mac-prefixes
The arp-scan ieee-oui.txt file shares the same format as the nmap-mac-prefixes file and thus it can be used with arp-scan using the --ouifile option.
arp-scan --ouifile=/usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes -lI eth0 luger ~ # arp-scan --ouifile=/usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes -lI eth0 Interface: eth0, datalink type: EN10MB (Ethernet) Starting arp-scan 1.9.5 with 256 hosts (https://github.com/royhills/arp-scan) 192.168.0.1