1AIRMON-NG(8)                System Manager's Manual               AIRMON-NG(8)
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NAME

6       airmon-ng  - POSIX sh script designed to turn wireless cards into moni‐
7       tor mode.
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SYNOPSIS

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

13       airmon-ng This script can be used to enable monitor  mode  on  wireless
14       interfaces. It may also be used to go back from monitor mode to managed
15       mode. Entering the airmon-ng command without parameters will  show  the
16       interfaces  status.   It can also list/kill programs that can interfere
17       with the wireless card operation.
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OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

20       start <interface> [channel]
21              Enable monitor mode on an interface  (and  specify  a  channel).
22              Note:  Madwifi-ng  is  a special case, 'start' has to be used on
23              wifi interfaces and 'stop' on ath interfaces.
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25       stop <interface>
26              Disable monitor mode and go back to  managed  mode  (except  for
27              madwifi-ng where it kills the ath VAP).
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29       check [kill]
30              List  all  possible programs that could interfere with the wire‐
31              less card. If 'kill' is specified, it will try to  kill  all  of
32              them.
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34       --verbose
35              This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined with
36              other parameters or used alone.  This  flag  will  increase  the
37              verbosity to provide additional useful information which may not
38              be needed for normal operation.
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40       --debug
41              This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined with
42              other  parameters  or  used  alone.  This flag will increase the
43              verbosity to debug level to assist in troubleshooting errors  in
44              airmon-ng. Use this flag when opening a bug, but only use --ver‐
45              bose when requesting support in irc.
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47       --elite
48              WARNING: DO NOT USE: This flag must precede start  or  stop  and
49              will  prevent  airmon-ng from removing interfaces.  WARNING: Use
50              of this flag will immediately disqualify receiving  any  support
51              from the aircrack-ng team, due to the fact that this behavior is
52              known to be broken. WARNING!
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AUTHOR

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

68       airbase-ng(8)
69       aireplay-ng(8)
70       airodump-ng(8)
71       airodump-ng-oui-update(8)
72       airserv-ng(8)
73       airtun-ng(8)
74       besside-ng(8)
75       easside-ng(8)
76       tkiptun-ng(8)
77       wesside-ng(8)
78       aircrack-ng(1)
79       airdecap-ng(1)
80       airdecloak-ng(1)
81       airolib-ng(1)
82       besside-ng-crawler(1)
83       buddy-ng(1)
84       ivstools(1)
85       kstats(1)
86       makeivs-ng(1)
87       packetforge-ng(1)
88       wpaclean(1)
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92Version 1.6.0                    January 2020                     AIRMON-NG(8)