Epigraph: If a person does not have a sense of humor, he should at least have the feeling that he does not have a sense of humor.As recently as my colleagues and colleagues, a poorly connected device was calculated with the goal of disconnecting the port on the switch for educational purposes.
In our case, we physically saw the piece of iron, but, to our misfortune, the pulling of the patchcord from it never put the port on the switch - thanks to the embedded hubs and the spontaneous historical formation of the SCS in this room.
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The plan for calculating the piece of hardware according to the total analysis of hardware vendors by MAC (technically by
MAC OUI , the first three bytes of the mac-address) has matured.
The exchange of information went through Lync, amazingly colored footcloth with MAC-addresses with emoticons.
The reason, of course, is commonplace - 0E: 01: 3F: 95: D1: 68 turns into 0E: 01: 3F: 95

1:68 (Nortel, he “sees them like this”
(c) an avant-garde artist , unlike Cisco Catalyst, for example). The unexpected humor of the situation turned out to be that ALL addresses were “fun”.
After a minute of positive, an idea arose to introduce a gradation of “funny” and “sad” mac-addresses.
According to the terver, the probability of occurrence: D - 1/16 and positions for the appearance of cheerfulness - five (the first byte does not generate a smiley), which after short sketches leads to an understanding of the presence of about 27.6% of cheerful addresses.
It became interesting to us, for sure there are vendors who have OUI merry in themselves. And today we are presenting top10 equipment with “fun” MAC addresses.
How to update top10 (it, however, is unlikely to change soon) in the shellwget http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui.txt cat oui.txt | grep "(hex)" | grep '^..\-D' > smileMACs cat oui.txt | grep "(hex)" | grep '^..\-..\-D' >> smileMACs cat smileMACs | cut -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | head -n5
Here they are!
75 Cisco Systems, Inc
55 Apple Inc.
47 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
39 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
27 ARRIS Group, Inc.
But as it turned out, no. The list of manufacturers of glands with "sad" MAC-addresses in the upper part is similar:
680 Cisco Systems, Inc.
477 Apple, Inc.
366 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
299 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
221 ARRIS Group, Inc.
Why not count in percents? Let's feel like British scientists! Note how many obviously “funny” OUI (+) are in Venodor and how many are “sad” (-) (in them, however, all is not lost there will also be some “funny” MAC addresses. We cut off those that have 5 address ranges and get:
vendor | + | - | ±% |
"UNGERMANN-BASS INC." | sixteen | one | 1600% |
Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co., Limited | ten | 17 | 58.82% |
Amazon Technologies Inc. | 6 | 12 | 50% |
"AzureWave Technology Inc." | eight | 23 | 34.78% |
"IEEE Registration Authority" | 22 | 72 | 30.55% |
"ASKEY COMPUTER CORP" | five | 18 | 27.77% |
Liteon Technology Corporation | eight | thirty | 26.66% |
"Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd." | five | 21 | 23.80% |
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 6 | 28 | 21.42% |
"D-Link International" | 6 | 33 | 18.18% |
"Cisco SPVTG" | 6 | 35 | 17.14% |
UB - the first place with a huge margin (along the way they are familiar with the idea!)
H3C - second place (!).
The list clearly dragged on to capture at least one more well-known manufacturer of network equipment of the mass segment (D-Link).
Smile more often!And maybe, on April 1, the thicket will smile at you ...
Sent from a sad MAC address.