Interactive (manual) channel hopping in airodump-ng

[drws]

Description

This is a feature request for interactive (manual) channel switching in airodump-ng's interface. The idea is that when a keystroke (let's take c for example, not already used) is pressed, airodump-ng stops auto-hopping and starts to manually increment the currently-active channel every time c is pressed (using the channel list, passed with -c). Also a manual-off/auto-on hotkey (x for example) reverts the default auto-hopping behaviour.

There is also a case when only a single channel is passed to airodump-ng with the -c argument. In this case the most simple solution would be for the c and x hotkeys to not have an effect, since auto-hopping algorithm is also not running. However, there is another option that could prove useful, to allow the c hotkey to scroll through all possible channels in this case (1-11 or 1-13 in the 2.4GHz band for example). The x hotkey could then provide an option to hop back to the default channel (set by -c).

[ChillVibesMushroom]

So all we have to do to auto hop is not pass the c parameter

[drws]

This proposal is specifically about manual hopping and switching between manual and auto modes. Auto hopping is already working, but is useless in many real-world scenarios. It's really only good for long-term headless capturing of statistical data.

[ChillVibesMushroom]

I did figure out how to generate traffic when attacking a station with multiple frequencies that hop automatically inbetween each other when a target is disconnected and this makes aircrcack-ng that much more beautiful to use

[drws]

Yeah, auto-hopping is great for surveying channel-adaptive and/or multi-band networks too, but again, the issue here is that there is currently no manual-hopping. There's single-channel operation and auto-hopping through a predefined list, but no manual-hopping.