👾 Overview

Monitor mode or promiscuous mode is a special mode that lets your NIC listen to packets regardless of the network, and allows for injection.

airmon-ng from the aircrack suite can be used to put your NIC in monitor mode.

Not all wireless adapters and drivers are compatible with monitor mode, or with injection. Checkout these drivers.

📌 Using Monitor Mode

# Identify your wireless interface
ip a
 
# Kill processes that could interfere
airmon-ng check kill [interface]
 
# Start monitor mode
airmon-ng start [interface]