Get wifi details from macOS command line
GUI is great but CLI is awesome. Here are a few macOS CLI commands go get wifi details:
Sample output:
agrCtlRSSI: -61
agrExtRSSI: 0
agrCtlNoise: -90
agrExtNoise: 0
state: running
op mode: station
lastTxRate: 162
maxRate: 300
lastAssocStatus: 0
802.11 auth: open
link auth: wpa2-psk
BSSID: 9c:3d:cf:d0:e2:34
SSID: Maison_5GHz
MCS: 12
channel: 36,1
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s
Sample output:
SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group)
VLAN805 54:3d:37:d1:b5:c8 -42 11 Y US NONE
VLAN205 54:3d:37:91:b5:c8 -43 11 Y US NONE
VLAN805 54:3d:37:f4:dc:18 -55 6 Y US NONE
VLAN205 54:3d:37:b4:dc:18 -56 6 Y US NONE
Maison_EXT a0:40:a0:57:d1:bd -36 1 Y US WPA2(PSK/AES/AES)
Maison 9c:3d:cf:d0:e2:30 -47 1 Y US WPA2(PSK/AES/AES)
ESPsoftAP_01 5e:cf:7f:fd:8c:50 -29 1 N -- WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP)
Maison_5GHz 9c:3d:cf:d0:e2:34 -58 36 Y US WPA2(PSK/AES/AES)
What is interesting with the above output is that you can see that for example the SSIDs VLAN205 and VLAN805 are being broadcasted by 2 different access points or radios at different frequencies.
Get details about your current connection
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -ISample output:
agrCtlRSSI: -61
agrExtRSSI: 0
agrCtlNoise: -90
agrExtNoise: 0
state: running
op mode: station
lastTxRate: 162
maxRate: 300
lastAssocStatus: 0
802.11 auth: open
link auth: wpa2-psk
BSSID: 9c:3d:cf:d0:e2:34
SSID: Maison_5GHz
MCS: 12
channel: 36,1
Get the list of an SSID broadcast scan (aka list of available visible SSID)
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s
Sample output:
SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group)
VLAN805 54:3d:37:d1:b5:c8 -42 11 Y US NONE
VLAN205 54:3d:37:91:b5:c8 -43 11 Y US NONE
VLAN805 54:3d:37:f4:dc:18 -55 6 Y US NONE
VLAN205 54:3d:37:b4:dc:18 -56 6 Y US NONE
Maison_EXT a0:40:a0:57:d1:bd -36 1 Y US WPA2(PSK/AES/AES)
Maison 9c:3d:cf:d0:e2:30 -47 1 Y US WPA2(PSK/AES/AES)
ESPsoftAP_01 5e:cf:7f:fd:8c:50 -29 1 N -- WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP)
Maison_5GHz 9c:3d:cf:d0:e2:34 -58 36 Y US WPA2(PSK/AES/AES)
What is interesting with the above output is that you can see that for example the SSIDs VLAN205 and VLAN805 are being broadcasted by 2 different access points or radios at different frequencies.
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