This little function uses the free API from www.macvendorlookup.com to lookup vendor information for a MAC Address. It’s really quite simple, and easy to use. It only have the one parameter; MacAddress, which defaults to the MAC address of the first network interface that is in use.
Enjoy.
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| function Get-MacAddressVendor { | |
| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Get vendor information from MAC address. | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| This script uses the free API from http://www.macvendorlookup.com to look up vendor information for the supplied MAC address. | |
| .NOTES | |
| Author: Øyvind Kallstad | |
| Date: 09.04.2015 | |
| Version: 1.1 | |
| #> | |
| [CmdletBinding()] | |
| param ( | |
| # MAC Address | |
| [Parameter(Position = 0)] | |
| [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] | |
| [string] $MacAddress = ([System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface]::GetAllNetworkInterfaces() | Where-Object {$_.OperationalStatus -eq 'Up' -and $_.NetworkInterfaceType -ne [System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterfaceType]::Loopback})[0].GetPhysicalAddress() | |
| ) | |
| try { | |
| $uri = [uri]"http://www.macvendorlookup.com/api/v2/$($MacAddress)" | |
| $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri | |
| Write-Output $result | |
| } | |
| catch {Write-Warning $_.Exception.Message} | |
| } |
