Airodump-ng Interactive Mode
In addition to passing parameters at the command line,
we can also interact with Airodump-ng on screen while it is running.
Airodump-ng acknowledges key presses on the top right.
One of the most useful is the space key, which we discussed earlier.
This allows us to freeze the output when we notice something useful on the screen.
Note that only the GUI is frozen, and the capture continues in the background.
Pressing space again will refresh the screen and the live data display resumes.
AP and client coloring is another useful feature.
Pressing Tab enables and disables scrolling through the AP list.
When scrolling is enabled we can go up and down with the up arrow and down arrow keys
As we scroll through the APs,
we may notice the associated stations are highlighted.
The m key cycles through the color options for a selected AP.
The a key cycles through different display options.
For example, this shows APs and stations.
and this shows APs, stations and ACK statistics.
Note that some wireless drivers provide some of the control frames, or don’t
provide any to user space, so this field may be empty or will display 0.
We can also display APs only
or, Stations only
The s key cycles through different sorting options:
BSSID
Power level
Number of beacons
Number of data packets
Packet rate
Channel
Max data rate
Encryption
Cipher
Authentication
ESSID
and, First seen
The i key will invert the sorting
and the d key resets to the default sorting by power level.