wifi_monitor

Collect Statistics of all WiFi traffic on a Raspberry Pi 3B utilizing the Nexmon wifi driver.

Step 1: Start with a fresh image of raspian. Complete setup upon switching on. Be sure to set your timezone.

Step 2: Do any updates. Be sure to reboot in case it upgrades kernel.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot

Step 3: Install Nexmon WiFi Driver for monitor mode.

cd /home/pi
git clone https://github.com/jakejones/wifi_monitor.git
cd wifi_monitor
sudo su root
chmod 777 mon_install.sh
./mon_install.sh

Step 4: Add the following configuration code to /etc/rc.local before the 'exit 0' line

iw phy `iw dev wlan0 info | gawk '/wiphy/ {printf "phy" $2}'` interface add mon0 type monitor
ifconfig mon0 up

Step 5: Finally

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install scapy datetime
cd /home/pi/wifi_monitor
sudo chmod +x monitor.py
sudo chmod +x sort.py
sudo chmod +x run.sh
sudo reboot

Step 6: Create service that starts monitor on boot (Optional)

cd /home/pi/wifi_monitor
sudo cp wifi-monitor.service /etc/systemd/system/wifi-monitor.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable wifi-monitor
sudo reboot

To check on the status of the service run: sudo systemctl status wifi-monitor

You can find the data in "/home/pi/wifi_monitor/data/". It will be sorted by day and hour.

Example 1:

In the terminal call the monitor.py script like the following:

sudo ./monitor.py > output.log

For every packet detected this will save the MAC address alongside the time into the file output.log.

Example 2:

sudo ./monitor.py | ./sort.py "data" 

This will save the output in files under the directory "data" sorted by date and the hour of day. e.g. data/2018-08-02/14.log Will contain all the mac addresses logged between 2:00pm and 3:00pm on the 2nd aug 2018.

The benefet of doing this is to speed up the time to query the data especially as the data set grows over time.