IEEE OUI site doesn't work. Alternatives?

Ichinisan

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Do you guys use IEEE or something else? I have to look up MAC IDs frequently and the IEEE site has been going nuts recently.

https://regauth.standards.ieee.org/standards-ra-web/pub/view.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJHPaarLus

It has been having problems for at least a week or so. I thought it was working this morning after I looked-up an OUI, but then it went right back to the same problems as last week.

I currently use a couple custom searches in Chrome:
Code:
IEEE OUI MAC | oui | http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch?%s
  MAC Lookup | mac | http://coffer.com/mac_find/?string=%s

I also used the bookmark keyword custom search feature in Firefox for many years before Chrome was released.

...so all I have to do is type "OUI" or "MAC" into my address bar, followed by a space or a tab and the search term.

I would normally prefer to look-up through coffer.com because it's smart enough to strip ":" and "-" or extra characters to get the first 6 from a MAC ID. I could paste a whole MAC and I don't have to format it a particular way. However, I frequently find that the OUIs I search for aren't in their database ~50% of the time, so I started using IEEE almost exclusively and carefully formatting my search query.

When my custom search stopped working, I try to do it directly through their site and I have the problem you see in the video.

Just after recording that video, IEEE finally worked again. I spent a half hour trying to find out what brand a particular device was. It was very frustrating.
 

Ertaz

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Jul 26, 2004
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Do you guys use IEEE or something else? I have to look up MAC IDs frequently and the IEEE site has been going nuts recently.

https://regauth.standards.ieee.org/standards-ra-web/pub/view.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJHPaarLus

It has been having problems for at least a week or so. I thought it was working this morning after I looked-up an OUI, but then it went right back to the same problems as last week.

I currently use a couple custom searches in Chrome:
Code:
IEEE OUI MAC | oui | http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch?%s
  MAC Lookup | mac | http://coffer.com/mac_find/?string=%s

I also used the bookmark keyword custom search feature in Firefox for many years before Chrome was released.

...so all I have to do is type "OUI" or "MAC" into my address bar, followed by a space or a tab and the search term.

I would normally prefer to look-up through coffer.com because it's smart enough to strip ":" and "-" or extra characters to get the first 6 from a MAC ID. I could paste a whole MAC and I don't have to format it a particular way. However, I frequently find that the OUIs I search for aren't in their database ~50% of the time, so I started using IEEE almost exclusively and carefully formatting my search query.

When my custom search stopped working, I try to do it directly through their site and I have the problem you see in the video.

Just after recording that video, IEEE finally worked again. I spent a half hour trying to find out what brand a particular device was. It was very frustrating.

I use wireshark.

https://www.wireshark.org/tools/oui-lookup.html