i have an application (iphone app) that I want to review what it sends and receives with the internet.
 
What's the best way to do that? 
 
I know that I'm assuming it's not complicated or secure.
 
By review I mean dump all its traffic to a file on my pc.  My network is some wireless routers that have my BoB modem as their internet gateway.  I could easily point the wireless router to go through my pc as a gateway, but apart from directing the traffic to my pc I don't what program to use to capture the traffic on to my disk.  Is this what wireshark's used for?

If its wireless, you could try Wireshark (packet sniffer) and make sure its running in promiscuous mode (capture packets on the network even if they are not destined for you).

This should work for wireless (as your wireless card would just pick the data up from the air) but if your PC is wired it wont pick the data up (as your router wont forward the iphone packets to you in the first place).

pcap + wireshark +1

Icey you would be thinking of KisMAC http://trac.kismac-ng.org/

last edited by HerbalLizard at 07:36:15 23/Nov/10

Wouldn't it be great if our little network switches had reporting software like this build in. How hard could it be for them?
I'd just love a simple log of per device usage.