Eagle Technology — 3 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:20:C5, 00:A0:B9, or 00:80:29 belongs to Eagle Technology, a vendor of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet network interface cards active in the early-to-mid 1990s. The three prefixes map to at least two distinct IEEE MA-L registrants: "EAGLE TECHNOLOGY" (San Jose, CA) and "EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, INC." (Buena Park, CA).

Eagle Technology Inc was formed in San Jose, California, by electronics distributor Anthem Electronics to manufacture and market Novell-branded Ethernet NICs sold through Novell's reseller channel, per an April 1991 trade-press report. Products included the NE1000, NE2000, NE3200, NE/2, and NE/2-32 ISA adaptors, produced under an exclusive manufacturing arrangement with Novell.

Whether the Buena Park "EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, INC." registrant (00:A0:B9, 00:80:29) is the same legal entity as the San Jose one, or a later relocated or renamed instance, is unconfirmed — no source directly documents a San Jose-to-Buena-Park move. Anthem's Eagle Technology NIC business reportedly passed to Artisoft Inc in 1994 and then to Microdyne Corp in 1995, per secondary summaries of the same trade-press lineage.

Later product generations corroborate the vendor: an EP2000T Plus 10BASE-T ISA adapter (vintage listings dated 1994) and PCMCIA Fast Ethernet cards under the LE10BT and LE100BT2 model names, still referenced on legacy driver archives. No security advisories, CVEs, or malware associations exist for this hardware — expected, since these are passive-era NICs without onboard management firmware.

IEEE assignment

3 prefixes → EAGLE TECHNOLOGY / EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, INC. [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (lines 22158, 29985, 30184)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 3 known prefixes grouped under this consolidated vendor slug [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

HQ / country

EAGLE TECHNOLOGY: 2865 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134, US (00:20:C5). EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, INC.: 6800 Orangethorpe Ave. Unit, Buena Park, CA 90620, US (00:A0:B9, 00:80:29) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (IEEE MA-L registrant addresses)

Company status

historic; corporate formation documented April 1991, no later record found of the NIC business operating under this name [Likely] — techmonitor.ai

Device types

ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet network interface cards [Confirmed] — techmonitor.ai; network-drivers.com; driverguide.com

Notable products

NE1000, NE2000, NE3200, NE/2, NE/2-32 (ISA) [Confirmed] — techmonitor.ai; EP2000T Plus (10BASE-T ISA) [Likely] — vintage listing (search-snippet only, not independently re-fetched); LE10BT, LE100BT2 (PCMCIA) [Confirmed] — network-drivers.com, driverguide.com

Verified sample prefixes

00:20:C5, 00:A0:B9, 00:80:29 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Historic block

no pre-registration MAC/OUI date exists for any of the three prefixes; the only date recovered (April 4, 1991) is a trade-press article/event date about corporate formation, not an OUI assignment date [Confirmed] — techmonitor.ai

Special note

IEEE's MA-L registry (the IEEE MA-L registry) publishes no assignment-date field, only registrant name and address; any third-party "date registered" for these prefixes is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry structure

Related vendors

relationship between the San Jose "EAGLE TECHNOLOGY" and Buena Park "EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, INC." registrants is unconfirmed — possibly the same entity after relocation, possibly distinct [Unknown] — no source found

Analyst note

Treat the three prefixes as belonging to the same Novell-channel Ethernet-NIC product niche with moderate confidence; company substance (documented formation, multi-generation product line, 3 OUI assignments) clears the abstention bar for a shell registration, but the exact corporate continuity across the two registrant addresses is not independently verified.