Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V2 #496

From: Mark Rollins (mark_at_mrollins.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 07:57:04 EDT


> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 03:43:45 -0500
> Subject: [NTLK] Wireless: bliss never lasts..
> From: Jim Witte <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us>
--snip--
> <Apple rant> Airport seems to be showing Apple's tendency to "weld the
> hood shut" again. I'd really like to be able (in X or 9) to bring up a
> monitor to see if there are any other 802.11 computers in the area
> flinging packets my way, to see if I've even got a connection.. but
> then, such a thing would basically be a packet sniffer, and Apple
> probably doesn't want to make an official packet sniffer, for obvious
> reasons.. [Apple iBook with Airport, the choize of the new hack3r
> g3n3rat10n!!]) </rant>

Have you tried OSX's "Network Utility"?
Tabs for:

Info/Netstat/Ping/Lookup/Traceroute/Whois/Finger/Portscan

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