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MAC address vendors

Every network interface has a MAC address whose first half identifies the organization the IEEE assigned it to. Find a manufacturer's prefixes, or look up who owns a prefix.

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18,720 organizations hold 34,841 MA-L blocks. Have a full MAC address? Use the MAC address vendor lookup.

Organizations with the most MAC address blocks

#OrganizationBlocksCountry
11Nokia211CA
17Dell Inc.166US
26Private88-
39NETGEAR73US
48eero inc.60US
50Avaya Inc52US

How MAC address blocks work

A MAC address is 48 bits, written as six bytes such as 3C:22:FB:12:34:56. The IEEE Registration Authority sells blocks of addresses to manufacturers, and the organization then numbers its own devices inside the block:

  • MA-L (large, the classic OUI): a 24-bit prefix, 16,777,216 addresses per block.
  • MA-M (medium): a 28-bit prefix, 1,048,576 addresses per block.
  • MA-S (small, also called OUI-36): a 36-bit prefix, 4,096 addresses per block.

Large vendors hold hundreds of MA-L blocks because each one covers about 16.7 million addresses. MA-M and MA-S blocks are carved out of MA-L blocks registered to "IEEE Registration Authority".

Why a MAC address may have no vendor

If the second-lowest bit of the first byte is set (the first byte's second hex digit is 2, 6, A or E), the address is locally administered: it was made up by software rather than taken from an IEEE block. Phones and laptops use such randomized MAC addresses on Wi-Fi for privacy, and virtual machines and containers often get them too. Those addresses never match a vendor. Some organizations also register blocks as "Private", which hides the owner.

Source: IEEE Registration Authority public listings (MA-L oui.txt). Organization names and addresses are shown as the IEEE publishes them.