Fetch and generate ethercodes data for arpwatch.
Fetch current IEEE MA-L Assignments file (oui.csv) from IEEE.org, and generate ethercodes.dat for arpwatch consumption.
Fetch oui.csv only, if the timestamp is newer (unless --force is given). Similar, generate ethercodes.dat only, if the timestamps don't match (again, unless --force is given). Use option --keep to (re)generate ethercodes.dat from an existing oui.csv.
The timestamps of oui.csv fluctuate in a 2 seconds range(!). Therefore compensate the fluctuation by taking a deltat tolerance factor into account.
Usage: fetch-ethercodes.py [-hVvfkt][-T sec][-O ouifile][-o outfile][-p spec]
-h, --help this message
-V, --version print version and exit
-v, --verbose verbose mode (cumulative)
-f, --force force operation
-k, --keep keep existing http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
-t, --timestamp print timestamp
-T, --deltat sec tolerance in timestamp comparison
(default: 2.5 sec.)
-O, --ouifile file IEEE.org host
(default: http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv)
-o, --outfile file arpwatch ethercodes
(default: ethercodes.dat)
-p, --patch spec patch specfile with updated timestamp
$ fetch-ethercodes.py -v
check http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
oui file size: 2264884
oui file date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:06:13 GMT
no local file oui.csv found
fetch http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
no local file ethercodes.dat found
parse oui.csv
value 0:1:c8 exists already: "THOMAS CONRAD CORP.", "CONRAD CORP."
value 8:0:30 exists already: "NETWORK RESEARCH CORPORATION", "ROYAL MELBOURNE INST OF TECH"
value 8:0:30 exists already: "NETWORK RESEARCH CORPORATION", "CERN"
generate ethercodes.dat with 25433 entries
successful
timestamp: 20180926_080613
An additional tool query-ethercodes.py is provided, that allows to query the
ethercodes.dat database.