Network Spelunking
From charlesreid1
Starting Out
Gathering Information
First thing you'll want to do is get information about the network. You can gather information intrusively, i.e., you're asking other machines for information and sending out packets, or you can get information non-intrusively, i.e., listening.
Non-Intrusive Information
Basic Scan
The Tools
Aircrack
Kali has a top 10 tools list, and aircrack is in it. Let's see what it's all about:
$ airmon-ng PHY Interface Driver Chipset phy0 wlan0 b43 non-mac80211 device? (report this!) phy4 wlan2 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370
Complaining about the proprietary chipset on the MacBook's builtin Broadcom Wireless card. But it's cool cuz we have a wireless USB adapter, wlan2.