For years, packet capturing in the Mac using the built-in Wi-Fi adapter has always worked reliably out of the box, and it is one of the main reasons many Wi-Fi professionals love their Macs to do their jobs. Unfortunately, packet capturing is now broken in the new M1 Mac.
Airtool 2 makes it possible to perform affordable, multi-channel captures using multiple remote sensors and Wi-Fi adapters. As each source (a sensor/interface combination) sends captured packets back, Airtool 2 automatically merges them to generate a single capture file or an aggregated live capture in Wireshark.
For the past WLAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix, AZ (February 21-23, 2017), I collaborated with Brian Long for the development of a feature in Airtool to allow users to [...]
Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks at the protocol level requires analyzing control, management, and data frames. When saving these frames to disk, capture files can grow quickly because data frames may [...]
Airtool is a menu bar app for macOS that makes it easy to capture 802.11 frames on one or more channels. One of its options lets you select the [...]
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