WM - Wi-Fi Monitoring Module¶
WM module¶
The Wi-Fi Monitoring module puts your airport interface in monitoring mode and listens to all 802.11 radio frames around.
It currently shows you:
Access Points radio details in your radio range
Wi-Fi clients radio details in your radio range
Informations on clients association (useful to detect roaming or when multiple AP with same SSID)
Bidirectional infos for each client connection: from AP to client and client to AP
- Data Rate
- %Retries
- %Errors
- Bytes transferred
- Channels stats
- Power signal in dBm
- …
For those asking, WM module can’t decrypt encrypted packets of other Wi-Fi networks.
Differences with NA module¶
Starting WM module sets your Mac Wi-Fi interface in monitoring mode. (which is different than promiscuous, see this article)
Monitoring mode has the following consequences:
- Your Wi-Fi interface will be directly disconnected
- You will loose all network connectivity
- You see all radio packets, even the Wi-Fi packets of your neighbor (encrypted or not)
- WM module doesn’t care if packets are encrypted: it shows you radio statistics, not content analysis