Launching the Attack

The airbase-ng component of the Aircrack-ng suite is used to create Karmeta-sploit’s fake access point. In the next example, we configure the airbase-ng access point to respond to all probes (-P), to beacon every 30 seconds (-C 30) with the ESSID Free Wi-Fi (-e "Free WiFi"), and to be verbose (-v) using the interface mon0:

root@bt:/opt/metasploit3/msf3# airbase-ng -P -C 30 -e "Free WiFi" -v mon0
 14:06:57  Created tap interface at0
  14:06:57  Trying to set MTU on at0 to 1500
  14:06:57  Trying to set MTU on mon0 to 1800
  14:06:57  Access Point with BSSID 00:21:29:E2:DE:14 started.

As you can see at , Airbase-ng creates a new interface ...

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