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Ethereal on Mac OS X
Ethereal is a free and open source packet sniffer application, used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features of a protocol analyzer.
Ethereal is a GUI application that requires some flavor of X11 on your Mac and Fink will need the developer tools to compile some packages from source. I’m using Mac OS X 10.4.7 and installed the X11 and XCode from the Tiger installation disc. It’s straight forward; you just need to run the installer and follow instructions.
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