I Have Seen the Future (of WiFi Sniffing), and It Is OmniPeek (on a Mac)
Yours Truly has been worried about the future of WiFi sniffing. Yours Truly worries about the people (they seem to prefer site surveyors) the software (AirMagnet has yet to support 802.11ac adapters) and the methods (WildPackets has been pushing AP-based capture). To a person who believes that portable WiFi sniffing is essential for optimizing WiFi performance, it is all very disconcerting. And yet, there is hope. WiFi sniffing is ready to step into the 802.11ac/Internet of Everything era, and here is how it can be done. WildPackets OmniPeek has long been the author's favorite WiFi sniffer, but it only runs on Windows. For years and years and years that was fine. There were always a few Windows-compatible WiFi adapters that worked great with OmniPeek. Now, however, WildPackets has gone in a different direction. They are promoting WiFi sniffing via an AP (which often results in a wor...