tldr/pages/common/airodump-ng.md

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airodump-ng

Capture packets and display information about wireless networks. Part of aircrack-ng. More information: https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng.

  • Capture packets and display information about wireless network(s) on the 2.4GHz band:

sudo airodump-ng {{interface}}

  • Capture packets and display information about wireless network(s) on the 5GHz band:

sudo airodump-ng {{interface}} --band a

  • Capture packets and display information about wireless network(s) on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands:

sudo airodump-ng {{interface}} --band abg

  • Capture packets and display information about a wireless network given the MAC address and channel, and save the output to a file:

sudo airodump-ng --channel {{channel}} --write {{path/to/file}} --bssid {{mac}} {{interface}}