At my day job I often have to resolve a MAC address to a vendor. Since a while I was using https://hwaddr.com but always had 2 gripes with the service they provide:
- too much advertisements
- can’t use it from the CLI
so I decided to embark on a journey to create my own site to give me a clutter free service that I can also facilitate from the CLI and thus lladdr.info was born. As I am not too much of a fan of python and gunicorn I decided to try something new and used the project as a vessel to learn some go. Killing two birds with one stone.
So now I can check my mac addresses quickly via CLI and my browser:
Source can be found here
CAVEAT
OUI will only be fetched at service start and not refreshed during the lifetime of the process. Not really mobile friendly at the moment.