troy7548 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I was watching some tutorials of people using Back track to test their home network and they turn the monitoring mode on there wireless card and went on with the tutorial but I was wondering after you are done testing your network do you have to turn the monitoring mode back off or once you close Back track does it reset its self also same question with the mac address. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I was watching some tutorials of people using Back track to test their home network and they turn the monitoring mode on there wireless card and went on with the tutorial but I was wondering after you are done testing your network do you have to turn the monitoring mode back off or once you close Back track does it reset its self also same question with the mac address. Thanks Monitor mode is just a function or feature of certain Wifi cards under linux. You can turn it on and off at will. ifconfig devID up promisc iwconfig devID mode monitor or to turn off monitor mode iwconfig devID mode managed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troy7548 Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 So it won't interfer with my internet connection if I leave it on monitoring mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 So it won't interfer with my internet connection if I leave it on monitoring mode. Monitor mode is for capturing packets. If you have two cards, you can set one to monitor while surfing on the other. I never actually tried surfing while in monitor mode to be honest, as I run BT in a vm using a usb wifi card, and windows on the host side with a seperate nic. Unless of course I boot off a thumbdrive, then I just use it for capturing stuff to take home and analyze later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 So it won't interfer with my internet connection if I leave it on monitoring mode. If you put the card in monitor mode it won't connect to the network any more. So yes, it will affect your internet connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 only untill you set it to managed so the command: iwconfig devID mode managed or restart the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 i have found that airmon-ng doesnt always work. will come up with errors if the driver isnt patch properly or at all. at least with iwconfig you know its working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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