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+The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) assigns an 
+Organizational Unique Identifier (OUI) to manufacturers of network 
+interfaces. Each interface has a Media Access Control (MAC) address of six 
+bytes. The first three bytes are the OUI.
+
+This module allows you to take a MAC address and turn it into the OUI and 
+vendor information. You can, for instance, scan a network, collect MAC 
+addresses, and turn those addresses into vendors. With vendor information, 
+you can often guess at what what you are looking at (e.g. an Apple 
+product).
+
+You can use this as a module as its individual functions, or call it as a 
+script with a list of MAC addresses as arguments. The module can figure it 
+out.
+
+This module tries to persistently cache with DBM::Deep the OUI information 
+so it can avoid using the network. If it cannot load DBM::Deep, it uses a 
+normal hash (which is lost when the process finishes). You can preload 
+this cache with the load_cache() function. So far, the module looks in the 
+current working directory for a file named mac_oui.db to find the cache. I 
+need to come up with a way to let the user set that location.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-MAC-Vendor
+Author: brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>