Re: Update: mac.c update, patch now on ftp

I was thinking of making the following:

1) macaddr_manuf function that returns the first 3 octets of a macaddr
2) a macaddr_manuf TYPE that can be used for the table
3) supply the ouiparse.awk to generate a set of INSERT statements  to load a table
4) allow the above table to be indexed. 

What does the group think of this?

Larry Rosenman
> >  The code in mac.c does a LINEAR search, and the list is only going to
> >  grow.  It's at 4110+ OUI's that are PUBLIC.).
> 
> Yuck. Let's put it into a (user loadable) table. And rather than having
> macaddr_manuf(), we should just have a "sametype()" (or whatever) which
> can compare an arbitrary mac address with another one. Then
> 
>   select brand from mactypes where '03:04:...' = macmask;
> 
> or at least
> 
>   select brand from mactypes where sametype('03:04:...',macmask);
> 
> would get you the right thing.
> 
> I can help with these internals, if that is the right way to head.
> 
>                     - Thomas


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