kismet
wireless sniffer and monitor
Capture packets from a specific wireless interface
Monitor multiple channels on a wireless interface$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0,wlan1] -m Capture packets and save them to a specific directory$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0] -d [path/to/output] Start Kismet with a specific configuration file$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0] -f [path/to/config.conf] Monitor and log data to an SQLite database$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0] --log-to-db Monitor using a specific data source$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0] --data-source=[rtl433] Enable alerts for specific events$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0] --enable-alert=[new_ap] Display detailed information about a specific AP's packets$ sudo kismet -c [wlan0] --info [BSSID]
Nearly all of these options are run-time overrides for values in the
kismet.conf configuration file. Permanent changes should be made to
the configuration file.
-v, --version Show version
--no-console-wrapper
Disable server console wrapper
--no-ncurses-wrapper
Disable server console wrapper
--debug
Disable the console wrapper and the crash handling functions,
for debugging
-f, --config-file
Use alternate configuration file
--no-line-wrap
Turn of linewrapping of output (for grep, speed, etc)
-s, --silent
Turn off stdout output after setup phase
--daemonize
Spawn detached in the background
--no-plugins
Do not load plugins
--homedir
Use an alternate path as the home directory instead of the user
entry
--confdir
Use an alternate path as the base config directory instead of
the default set at compile time
--datadir
Use an alternate path as the data directory instead of the de‐
fault set at compile time.
-T, --log-types Override activated log types
-t, --log-title Override default log title
-p, --log-prefix <prefix> Directory to store log files
-n, --no-logging Disable logging entirely</p>
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<p>--device-timeout=n
Expire devices after N seconds</p>
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<p>The full documentation for Kismet is maintained in a separate package
kismet-docs. More information here: https://www.kismetwire‐
less.net/docs</p>
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