Time for action – expermenting with your Alfa card

Follow the instructions carefully:

1. Enter the iwconfig wlan0 command to check the capabilities of your card. As you can see in the following screenshot, the Alfa card can operate in the b and g bands:

   

2. Just for demo purposes, when I connect another card, a D-Link DWA-125, we see that it is capable for b, g, and n bands:

   

3. To set the card on a particular channel we use the iwconfig mon0 channel X commands:

   

4. The iwconfig series of commands does not have a channel hopping mode. One could write a simple script over it to make it do so. An easier way is to use airodump-ng with options to either hop channels arbitrarily or only a subset or only selected bands. All these options are illustrated in the following screenshot when we run airodump-ng –help:

   

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We understood that both wireless sniffing and packet injection depend on the hardware support available. This would mean that we can only operate on bands and channels allowed by our...