iNet Pro is a handy network utility for your iPhone
iNet is incredibly handy. I needed a list of the MAC addresses of all of the devices on my network. It's a fairly tedious process that requires a lot of copy and pasting and a lot of poking around in network settings. Then, I remembered I had iNet Pro on my iPhone. I fired it up, ran a scan, and then emailed myself a nicely-formatted report that listed all of the devices.
Later, my satellite Internet went down. Every couple of minutes, I launched iNet and had it run "ping" against www.google.com to see if the connection was back up. I've used it to see if my wife's iPhone was on the network (a good way to see if she is awake) and to remember the static IP address of a network printer at my office.
iNet Pro can run port scans (offering a custom set of ports to check or letting you run your own) and show you a list of Bonjour services that are available for each computer. If you have any computers set to use Wake On Lan, iNet can send the necessary signal. I haven't used that feature but Apple improved upon it in Snow Leopard and explains how to determine if your Mac supports Wake On Demand.
There are several versions of iNet available. The basic iNet Network Scanner is $0.99 (all prices USD) and iNet Pro is $4.99. The website includes a handy guide to the iNet and iNet Pro Feature List (PDF), which explains the differences. You can upgrade from iNet to iNet Pro as a $3.99 in-app purchase, so if you aren't sure that you need everything the Pro version does, you can start small without worrying that you're going to cost yourself more by not buying the Pro version right away.
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Huh cool, I also wondered why there where no wifi tools for the iphone for doing a site survey, given the gps integration it seemed like a natural fit. Anyone recommend a jail broken one geared to general walk around building type survey? Having to walk around with a laptop always feels lame :p.
May 16 2010 at 3:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDon't suppose they are coming out with an iPad client?
May 15 2010 at 4:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"It's a fairly tedious process that requires a lot of copy and pasting and a lot of poking around in network settings."? To get MAC addresses of devices on your network? Just open terminal and type "arp -a".
May 16 2010 at 1:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf you are running an Airport network, an easy way to get the Mac address of all of your connected devices is to launch Airport Utility.
Go to Manual Setup --> Advanced --> Logging & Stats --> Logs & Statistics --> DHCP Clients. There you have all the MAC Address and their IP Addresses listed.
That's a handy tip!
A couple of notes:
The only trouble is that you can't copy/paste out of that list. If you're trying to compile a list of all of them, that might be bit of a pain.
That list seems to record active DHCP leases, not who is actively on the network at the moment. i.e. my wife's laptop is off and my wife (and her iPhone) is not home, but they both show up on the AirPort Utility list and not on iNet's. That could be a good or bad thing, depending on what you're trying to do.
iNet seems to have found at least one device that AirPort Utility did *not* find, but I have a dual-band network extended over about 4 AirPort base units, which may explain it.
iPhone has one big limitation as a network diagnostic tool: it has no support for 5GHz 802.11n networks.
May 14 2010 at 4:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow, I'm surprised they allowed these apps through after Apple banned all of the wifi network scanning apps.
May 14 2010 at 2:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI was wondering why I couldn't find any of those. Seemed odd to me, but Apple banning them would explain it.
Anyone have an Cydia apps that can do decent wifi sniffing?
@DJFriar: yFyLite and WiFiFoFum are nice apps.
May 14 2010 at 7:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTo know if your wife is awake? Really?
May 14 2010 at 1:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHey don't knock it, it comes in handy. For years I've kept all Windows laptops my roommates use on the same workgroup/domain just so I can see if anyone else is awake at 3 a.m. (like I normally am) and might want to out for a late/early breakfast =).
May 14 2010 at 6:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGetting the basic and upgrading to pro is a penny cheaper than outright buying the pro version. :-)
May 14 2010 at 1:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis app is awesome. Instant network map, MAC Addresses, IP address, enabled services, etc. If only there was an Ethernet to dock dongle for testing pure wired networks...
May 14 2010 at 1:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi have found scany [ http://happymagenta.com/scany/ ] to be very useful as well for this.
May 14 2010 at 10:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI use iSSH to do simple network checks by having a few entries look at various ports on various computers. iSSH polls each device upon opening the app and gives you a green light on each item that is online and ready to except connections.
You can easily check mail servers, web servers, vnc servers, etc. by pointing to the correct port.
This comes in handy when dealing with Knology as an ISP, because they tend to block our corporate account's port 25 thus block all of our mail.
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