Resources
Project Resources
Here you'll find a compilation of resources related to the DeepMAC project including the broad topic of hardware addresses.
MAC Basics
MAC is short for Medium Access Control (sometimes Media Access Control) and was coined when Xerox first developed Ethernet technology. It's part of data link layer of an Ethernet connection, it's role to provide addressing and channel access with whatever hardware is in use. Without a MAC address, it is impossible for two devices to communicate with any Ethernet-based technology (just about everything in our modern world).
Early on, Xerox and IEEE established a registry to reserve and hand out MAC address space to hardware manufacturers. In the early days of Ethernet, which was closely aligned with the early days of Internet development and growth, there were few such companies and an abundance of space available in the six bytes that make up an Ethernet MAC address.
To this day, the IEEE is still the sole and only agency on Earth with the authority to reserve MAC address space.
Ethernet Codes
As Internet growth begain to explode in the 1990's, there was a need for technicians to understand what different parts of a MAC address meant (which for certain network technologies could be different than others), and how to deal with this "new thing" in existing networks. The link below is a famous archive of information that still has remarkable relevance to some today.
IEEE Registry
Information and resources directly relating to IEEE's MAC Address registry.
IEEE RAC OUI Restructuring (RFC)
