Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

Installing the necessary software

The provided information should be enough to successfully choose an interface and we can move on to the software part of preparing a Wi-Fi hacking platform.

Let's assume that you have already installed a Debian-based Linux distribution on a hard drive or on a VM and want to prepare tools for a Wi-Fi penetration test. Here's the list of the necessary tools which we recommend you install first:

• Aircrack-ng suite: This is a great wireless hacking toolkit, which we have reviewed in Chapter 6, Exploring Hacking Toolkits.
• Hostapd: This is the software for installing rogue access points. It works well for WPA-Enterprise attacks when used with FreeRADIUS-WPE.
• Hostapd-WPE: This is the software for installing rogue access points ...