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What is Airodump-ng used for?
Airodump-ng is used for packet capturing of raw 802.11 frames and is particularly suitable for collecting WEP IVs (Initialization Vector) for the intent of using them with aircrack-ng. If you have a GPS receiver connected to the computer, airodump-ng is capable of logging the coordinates of the found access points.
What is mon0?
Airmon-ng (part of the Aircrack suite) has now created a new interface called mon0 which is a sub-interface of wlan0 and is set to Monitor Mode. You can now use the command airodump-ng mon0 to view the wireless traffic in your area. THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK OF ANY KIND – IT SIMPLY LISTENS TO PASSING TRAFFIC IN YOUR AREA.
What is Airmon ng command?
Description. This script can be used to enable monitor mode on wireless interfaces. It may also be used to go back from monitor mode to managed mode. Entering the airmon-ng command without parameters will show the interfaces status.
How to use sudo airmon-ng to change to monitor mode?
The command you executed, sudo airodump-ng mon0, tells your computer to start capturing packets on the interface called mon0, but you don’t have that interface yet, that’s why it tells you No such device. The general steps in using aircrack-ng is: sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
What to do if airmon ng stops working?
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!
What is the monitor interface number-0 in airmon-ng?
X is the monitor interface number – 0 unless you run multiple monitoring interfaces simultaneously. airmon-ng has two options to show more information, which can be useful when reporting or debugging issues. It gives information about the system as well as details about the wireless card.
Is there a problem with airmon-ng start wifi0 X?
Problem: Every time the command “airmon-ng start wifi0 x” is run, a new interface is created as it should, but there where two problems. The first is that for each time airmon-ng is run on wifi0 the interface number on ath increases: the first time is ath1, the second ath2, the third ath3, and and so on.
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