[mrtg] Distinguishing between Apple products

[Steve Shipway]

Apple have many ranges of MAC addresses assigned to them; by investigation, I've been able to deduce that some groups are used exclusively by certain devices.  Unfortunately this is not always the case (some groups appear to be shared between several) but it allows us to make a good estimate on the smartphone/portablecomputer split using our network.

Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz
Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487


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From: Niall O'Reilly [Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2011 9:48 p.m.
To: Steve Shipway
Cc: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Distinguishing between Apple products

Steve,

Some time ago, you mentioned your very impressive wireless dashboard
(https://monitor.auckland.ac.nz/wlan.html) on this list.

I'm wondering what method you use for distinguishing the different
Apple products (you show distinct counts for iPhone, iPhone4, MacBook).
I don't see this level of detail in the IEEE OUI list.  Perhaps its
just myopia; if not, I'ld be interested to know your method.

I'm copying the list, as I'm sure I'm not the only one who will be
interested in the answer.

Thanks in anticipation.

Niall O'Reilly