05 9 / 2011

So, I certainly do not remember this being here pre-Lion. Apparently there is a utility that can put your wireless card into promiscuous mode just that easily. By telling it to capture raw frames you can capture all the network traffic around you. Then it will spit out a zipped pcap file wherever you would like, to use whatever command line tools you might want to on it. I certainly aliased this little utility into my applications folder. It is found by default in all Lion computers in /System/Library/Core Services/Wi-fi Diagnostics.

So, I certainly do not remember this being here pre-Lion. Apparently there is a utility that can put your wireless card into promiscuous mode just that easily. By telling it to capture raw frames you can capture all the network traffic around you. Then it will spit out a zipped pcap file wherever you would like, to use whatever command line tools you might want to on it. I certainly aliased this little utility into my applications folder. It is found by default in all Lion computers in /System/Library/Core Services/Wi-fi Diagnostics.

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