MacShark - network toolbox for Mac OS X

This project aims to be a comprehensive network toolbox. Its features are to be

• lightweight (compared to other tools)
• secure (only one small executable to be setuid to execute as root)
• be Mac OS X style (using Objective-C and Cocoa programming and GUI)

features

• sniffer
• nmap frontend (require nmap as setuid root, see below)
• dig
• whois

installation

• unzip
• run executable, first time you try to sniff you will be asked for your administrator password

nmap setup

• install nmap in your PATH
• set the nmap binary as setuid :
• chown root /usr/local/bin/nmap
• chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/nmap