Abit makes NIC's???

[acemcmac]

Flipping through the DHCP table on my neighbor's router.... I had no idea that ABIT made NIC's....

Do you guys have any idea what OEM's might use ABIT components?

00:50:8D is the prefix in question....

 

[Cloud Strife]

How did you know the NIC was made by Abit, by its MAC address?

 

[cleverhandle]

The first few fields of a MAC address are a manufacturer code.

 

[spidey07]

they may have just registered that vendor ID field, and then had somebody else build them for their boards.

cloud strife...
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

 

[cmetz]

acemcmac, the network controller built on a motherboard will typically carry the MAC address prefix of the motherboard manufacturer, NOT the prefix of the controller chip. For example, I have two Abit motherboard systems in my lab with built-on Intel gigabit network adapters, and both of them have an Abit MAC prefix.