Turning monitor mode on and off

September 25, 2017

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On

This would just work:

airmon-ng start wlan0

This also works:

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up

To scout the nearby APs, you do:

airodump-ng wlan0mon (or whatever the name ifconfig gives)

Off

~# airmon-ng stop wlan0mon
PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset

phy0	wlan0mon	ath9k_htc	Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
		(mac80211 station mode vif enabled on [phy0]wlan0)
		(mac80211 monitor mode vif disabled for [phy0]wlan0mon)
~# service network-manager start

For my computer, I do not have to type service network-manager start. It just works.

For more

see the official documentation.

Written by Joel Mun. Joel likes Rust, GoLang, Typescript, Wasm and more. He also loves to enlarge the boundaries of his knowledge, mainly by reading books and watching lectures on Youtube. Guitar and piano are necessities at his home.

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