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Capturing Roaming Events

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Finally! I scored a newer laptop to put Kali Linux on along with Windows to do some more wifi shenanigans. Before I was using a WLANPi on my desktop, which limited my mobility of course. Now I can follow devices and get closer to some of my other APs. Yes I know you can also use Pi as a remote capture device but that still didnt help with looking into roaming events. Now its been a few years since Ive used Kali and I was amazed at how polished its become. I think I used Backtrack about a decade ago to try and 'hack' my wifi with a WPA cracking tool. Needless to say that didnt launch my security career but it was quite interesting. There are plenty of tutorials on how to set you capture device in monitor mode so I wont go into that here. If you are curious here is the Airmon-ng website. Please note only certain chipsets are supported in Kali for this. Atheros cards seem to be the defacto standard for monitor mode support but I had a Comfast CF912 and TPLink Archer T9UH adapter ...