Airmon-ng The Kali-Linux tool

Vikash Singh    Linux   

 Airmon-ng The Kali-Linux tool

NAME

       airmon-ng - POSIX sh script designed to turn wireless cards into monitor mode.

SYNOPSIS

       airmon-ng <start|stop> <interface> [channel] airmon-ng <check> [kill]

DESCRIPTION

       airmon-ng  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 interface status.  It can also list/kill programs that can interfere with the wireless card operation.

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

       start <interface> [channel] 

              Enable monitor mode on an interface (and specify a channel). Note: Madwifi-ng is a special case, 'start' has to be used on wifi interfaces 'stop' on ath interfaces.

       stop <interface>

              Disable monitor mode and go back to managed mode (except for madwifi-ng where it kills the ath VAP).

       check [kill]

              List all possible programs that could interfere with the wireless card. If 'kill' is specified, it will try to kill all of them.

       --verbose

              This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined with other parameters or used alone.  This flag will increase the verbosity to additional useful information which may not be needed for normal operation.

       --debug

              This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined with other parameters or used alone.  This flag will increase the verbosity to debug level to assist in troubleshooting errors in airmon-ng. Use this flag when opening a bug, but only use --verbose when requesting support in irc.

       --elite

              WARNING: DO NOT USE: This flag must precede start or stop and will prevent airmon-ng from removing interfaces.  WARNING: Use of this flag will mediately disqualify receiving any support from the aircrack-ng team, due to the fact that this behavior is known to be broken. WARNING!

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Adam Cecile <gandalf@le-vert.net> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  And modified to fit airmon-ng David Francos Cuartero <xayon@xayon.net>.  Most recently modified by Zero_Chaos to update for the airmon-zc rewrite.  Permission is granted to copy,  tribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software dating On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.