Wireshark has a new interface in series 2 and is written in QT5. But if you want something simpler, you can install version 2.2.6 from its official PPA. Its latest version most recently, version 2.2.7 can be installed by compiling its source code. Wireshark an open source protocol analyzer software used primarily to monitor the traffic on a network.

As reported on their own website, no new features were added to this version, only bugs from the previous one were corrected. A new update for the 2.2 series has been released. Don’t forget to replace the interface name wlp2s0 with yours.In this article we are going to see how to install the latest version that has been released from Wireshark. Lets create a new interface called mon0, delete the existing interface and finally bring up the new interface up. Create new wireless interface in monitor mode Please note down your wifi interface name using ip link command. You could restore your original wireless interface back using the commands mention here. So I thought of deleting it and creating a new interface for monitoring purpose. Setup new wireless interface in monitor modeĮven though, it’s possible to use the existing wireless interface (in my case it is wlp2s0), the Ubuntu system reverting the interface back from monitor mode to managed mode. It’s an Ubuntu based system customized for most networking related tasks.

Note that for Raspberry Pi devices, you might need to install Kali Linux. If you don’t get any output, either your wifi chipset or the wifi driver doesn’t support monitoring wifi. Iw list | grep -i 'supported interface modes' -A 20 | grep '* monitor'

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