On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 03:43 AM, Jim Witte wrote:
>
>
> <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>
>
Well, yes and no. It's kinda hard to totally weld shut the lid when the
core of your OS is open source, after all. And thank goodness, as Apple
decided for some silly-ass reason NOT to support WaveLAN cards themselves
in OS X (they did in OS 9; WaveLAN/Orinoco cards showed up as AirPort
cards on the desktop.) but since the OS is BSD Unix based and open-source,
someone has already released an open-source, freeware WaveLAN driver for
Mac OS X, based on a Linux driver, and I'm happily sending this via that
driver from my 1998 PowerBook G3 Series WallStreet and OS X 10.1.4, using
a Lucent WaveLAN Silver card and original Apple Airport basestation.
There's a commercial WiFi card driver for OS X too, as I recall, but so
far I haven't seen the need to investigate it.
If you want a TCP/IP or AirPort packet sniffer or nearby network locater,
search www.versiontracker.com for:
MacSniffer
MacStumbler
and also for "packet", and "sniffer". There's several.
- Bill
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