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Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X
From: David Maynor <dave () erratasec com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:42 -0500
In Snow Leopard there is a built-in command called airportd. In previous versions of OSX you could use this to change wireless setting from the command line. In 10.6 you can se it to sniff on a single wireless channel. David-Maynors-MacBook-Pro:~ dave$ /usr/libexec/airportd Usage: airportd <interface> <verb> <options> <cut for length> Sniffing on channel 1: airportd en1 sniff 1 David-Maynors-MacBook-Pro:~ dave$ Running the command in the example will start collecting wireless packets in /tmp with the name airportSniffXXXXXX.cap. This is a standard pcap file readable by tcpdump or wireshark. David-Maynors-MacBook-Pro:~ dave$ sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en1 sniff 1 Password: Capturing 802.11 frames on en1. ^CSession saved to /tmp/airportSniffndDZXh.cap. David-Maynors-MacBook-Pro:~ dave$ The downside is that while sniffing you wireless card cannot be used for normal operations. If this is common knowledge I apologize, I find it interesting Apple choose to include this ability by default. On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:27 PM, KF (lists) wrote:
Pre Snow Leopard versions of OSX work fine with kismet. -KF Sent from my iPad On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Cody Robertson <cody () hawkhost com> wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/13/10 10:41 AM, Justin Chang wrote:Hello group What are some of the best wireless sniffers on MAC OS X platform? I want to be able to sniff the traffic and look for sensitive information. The company has a small budget so both free and commercial are fine Thanks _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/Wireshark should work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvEiVoACgkQAr2PPaFwRupcvACaA5iBD/mxrEJ8xODwNr/6vLhO MHkAn1/j740oDaQHueGgapfP6Off5rmW =t1Bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X Justin Chang (Apr 13)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X Cody Robertson (Apr 13)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X KF (lists) (Apr 13)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X David Maynor (Apr 13)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X KF (lists) (Apr 13)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X James Lay (Apr 13)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X NOC (Apr 16)
- Re: Best Wireless Sniffer for MAC OS X Cody Robertson (Apr 13)