Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Cookbook

Step five – power up

In order to ensure that we have the best chance of capturing clients, we need to ensure that our signal is better than the access point's we are cloning. In the event that you cannot position yourself closer, you can always turn up the power to ensure you have a stronger signal.

To generate a more powerful signal, we can do the following:

    iwconfig wlan0 txpower 27
  

The following shows the result of the iwconfig command. Note the Tx-Power setting:

By sending a deification packet out, we are purposely booting a client that has connected to a legitimate access point off the network in an effort to get them to reconnect to our network instead. While just sending deification frames to a client connected to, a specific access ...