aceberg / WatchYourLAN

Lightweight network IP scanner with web GUI
https://hub.docker.com/r/aceberg/watchyourlan
MIT License
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What does locally administered mean? #38

Closed barart closed 9 months ago

barart commented 1 year ago

I see some devices with the text "locally administered" what does that mean?

c0f commented 1 year ago

I think "Unknown: locally administered" means that the MAC address vendor cannot be determined.

These might be devices using services such as Apple's Private Wi-Fi Address on iOS devices which generates a random MAC address.

If you look at /var/lib/arpwatch/ethercodes.db you'll see the list of vendor codes that WatchYourLAN is using to identify the vendor of a device.