Setup monitor mode

Monitor mode

When we want to hack networks, we will often set our network interface to listening mode.

Option #1:

ifconfig wlan1 down
iwconfig wlan1 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan1 up

Option #2

We can also do this using airtools. It creates (1) and stops (2) monitoring. Note that this command creates a new virtual interface wlan0mon and should be handled as such.

# Create monitor mode interface named wlan0mon
sudo airmon-ng start wlan0

# Stop monitor mode
sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon

Monitor mode on a specific channel

The following command creates monitor mode on a specific channel, while the second and third commands show the channel.

sudo airmon-ng start wlan0 2
sudo iw dev wlan0mon info
sudo iwconfig wlan0mon