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Can I monitor who is using my Mac OS X Internet Sharing?

Can I monitor who is using my Mac OS X Internet Sharing?

I'm running Snow Leopard and I'm sharing my Verizon connection via my Mac's built-in AirPort. Is there any way for me to identify who/what is using my shared connection?

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Guest [Entry]

"Well, if your Airport is the only wireless router you have, you can always find out who is connected to it.

To do that :

Start Airport Utility
Double-click your Airport
Start Manual Setup mode
Navigate to Airport > Summary
Choose ""Wireless Clients""

You should now see a complete list of the clients connected to your Airport.

Alternatively, you might want to run a network sniffer program such as KisMAC or iStumbler.

EDIT : Question asked is actually referring to Internet Sharing using a Mac + in-build Airport as gateway.

In that case, since your Mac is the gateway + router, you can use a network mapper utility to ""map"" out the network, thus finding out who is connected. You can try NMap, an opensource network mapping utility."
Guest [Entry]

If you want to graphically display all your local network connections, you may be interested in etherape. Otherwise, I'd go with @caliban
Guest [Entry]

"arp -i bridge0 -a

If you are using Internet Sharing on Mac OS X"