3soft inc. MAC prefix 00:17:A1 identifies a registry assignment
Summary
- // what this is
- 3soft is registered to MAC prefix
00:17:A1in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with00:17:A1, that block was registered by 3soft — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device.
About this vendor.
A MAC address beginning 00:17:A1 matches the IEEE MA-L assignment registered to 3soft inc. The record identifies the registrant; it does not establish which device or product uses a matching address. No device category is documented for this prefix in the supplied evidence.
This 24-bit prefix leaves 24 bits for suffix values, or 16,777,216 possible values. That is a mathematical range, not a count of devices, shipments, or active addresses. A captured match can identify the prefix assignment, but cannot by itself establish deployment, current vendor identity, or a device’s security state.
For this literal prefix, the first octet is 00: its Group bit is 0 and its Local bit is 0. Those bits are fixed by the exact prefix. Changing either bit produces a different prefix; the number of suffix values describes variation only after the prefix. RFC 7042 explains the significance of these bits for MAC identifiers.
- Device identification
- Unknown; no device category is mapped to this exact prefix in the supplied evidence.
- Company
- 3soft inc. [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Registry
- MA-L [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Prefix
00:17:A1[Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv- Device type
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Country
- Republic of Korea [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv