Manchmal frage ich mich ja schon ob ich einfach pingelig bin (durchaus im Bereich des möglichen) – oder ob die oft erwähnte Design Klitsche Apple trotz ihrer UI Guidelines etc manchmal blinde Flecken in der Eigenwahrnehmung hat.

Mich nervt seit geraumer Zeit dass mein Finder mir Hinweise einblendet wenn ich mich in meinem gesharten Netzwerk Ordner befinde …. aber seht es euch am besten selbst an.

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Seit gestern gibt es u.a. bei macupdate wieder einen neuen KisMac Build.

Wem der Name nichts sagt:

KisMAC is an open-source and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler/iStumbler/NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.

KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards – Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink support is in development. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported as well.

Hier im Blog findet sich auch eine alte Anleitung zum Thema, jedoch sollte diese deutlich zu alt sein um dem aktuellen Stand noch im Detail zu entsprechen.

Und um Vater-Staat zufriedenzustellen der Hinweis: dies ist nichts für deutsche User.

Ich bin neulich im IRC auf ein kleines Problem in 10.4.11 aufmerksam gemacht worden welches wohl erst mit den letzten Sicherheits-Updates aufkam.

Problembeschreibung:

Nach einspielen der letzten Sicherheitsupdates für 10.4.11 besteht das Problem dass Einstellungen unter:

System-Preferences -> Network

nicht mehr geändert werden können. Beim öffnen dieses Sys-Prefs-Untermenüs erhält man jeweils einen Hinweis dass die Einstellungen durch ein anderes Programm verändert wurden.

“Your network settings have been changed by another application”

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Im Rahmen der DefCon präsentierten Alex Pilosov und Tony Kapela einen interessanten Beitrag zum Thema Routing Security. Der Vortrag ist als PowerPoint File verfügbar.

Wired nennt das ganze das größte Sicherheitsloch des Internets, bei Heise läuft die Schlagzeile unter dem Titel Router lügen nicht. (more…)

Some users might realize that their Macs do prioritise the Wireless connection via Airport over the Ethernet connection.

This doesnt make sense at all, but if it happens to you too its solved quite easy

• Open System Preferences
• Navigate to Network
• Select the Drop Down element at the bottom of the left-sided network-devices list
• Select: Set Service Order
• Reorder the list & done

Some images:

As you can see, my Mac Pro has no wireless device, so i can only organize my 2 ethernet devices and firewire

Stumbled upon Bonjour Browser for Mac OS X.

Quote from the project page:

An application that lets you browse all the Bonjour services available on your local network. This application will show you all the known Bonjour services available and what computers have them, along with any extra information given with the service. Comes complete with a list of known services and also lets you add your own.

Works great for me (using 10.5 and FreeNAS here)

My collegue showed my MacOrchard.com as we were discussing about good ftp-clients.

MacOrchard seems to be a good platform if you are looking for a specific application category but don’t know a specific app itself or if you are looking for a quick overview / review / comparison

It features the following categories:

• Chat & Talk
• Classics
• Connectivity
• Email
• File Transfer
• Helper
• MUSH/MUD
• Network
• Older Protocols
• Other
• RSS
• Server
• Sharing
• Terminal
• Usenet
• Web Browsers

Christina Hornung has published a Mac OS X Leopard native Wireshark Installer Package on this website.

It is based on GTK, so you dont need X11.

He offers builds for PPC, Intel. Tiger releases are available too. So grab them….

Some basic informations about WireShark from wiki:

Wireshark is a packet sniffer computer application. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. In June 2006 the project was renamed from Ethereal due to trademark issues.

The functionality Wireshark provides is very similar to tcpdump, but it has a GUI front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network (usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by putting the network card into promiscuous mode.

Wireshark uses the cross-platform GTK+ widget toolkit, and is cross-platform, running on various computer operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Wireshark is free software.

I was looking for something similar to iptraf for OSX

Finaly got it…its called iftop

AFP548 offers an installer here

Iftop is a cli-based application which needs admin-privs.

Based on a question in #Macintosh in irc.quakenet.org here the short solution for the MTU question in OSX Tiger.

In this small example we use my internal ethernet device:

1. From the Apple Dock, choose System Preferences.
2. Select the Network pane.
3. From the Show pop-up menu, choose Built-in Ethernet.
4. Click the Ethernet tab.
5. From the Configure pop-up menu, choose Manually (Advanced).
6. Select the radio button for Custom.
7. In the field to the right of Custom, enter your new setting. Some ISPs may have a specific suggested MTU value. If you’re changing it without a specific recommendation, make incremental changes such as 1500 to 1400 to 1300, and so forth.

Apple offers a much more detailed documentation on this, so continue reading there.