airmon-ng
Monitor Mode
Starting Monitor Mode
| Make sure to kill NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant before running monitor mode. |
For more than one wifi adapters, one interface can be used for connecting to the internet while the others can be used for Monitor Mode.
airmon-ng start <interface>
Use iwconfig to verify if monitor mode has been set. Note this does not verify if monitor mode is working.
Checking and Killing Interfaces
To check, airmon-ng check. To kill, airmon-ng check kill.
This will kill all the processes that handles network configuration. To only kill one process, use systemctl to stop the processes.