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Visualise the wifi devices around you communicating to each other in their own networks
WifiGaze is a network security tool designed to:
Features:
To use WifiGaze, you need something like default Kali (which gives the first 3):
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
Create a virtual environment and install the wheel from the releases to the right
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install wifigaze-0.3.0-py3-none-any.whl
Run WifiGaze with default settings and the first WLAN interface:
wifigaze --interfaces=wlan0
For WLAN interfaces that don't support 5GHz, limit the channels to scan:
wifigaze --interfaces=wlan1 --channels=1,6,11
Once WifiGaze is running you can navigate to the web interface: http://127.0.0.1:8765
Option | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
--interfaces= | List of WLAN interfaces to use (e.g., wlan0,wlan1). | |
--channels= | List of channels to scan. | 1,6,11,36,40,44,48,149,153,157,161 |
--channel-dwell-time= | Time to listen on each channel before switching. | 1 |
--no-monitormode | Launches without listening to WLAN interfaces. | |
--preload-graph= | Preload a previously exported graph. | None |
--listen-ip= | IP address to listen on. | 127.0.0.1 |
--listen-port= | Port to listen on. | 8765 |
--no-browser | Do not launch the browser interface. | |
--log-level= | Log level (TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL). | INFO |
-h, --help | Display help message and exit. |
WifiGaze requires Python 3 and Node.js to build. Use the following commands:
python buildvue.py
python -m pip install --user setuptools wheel
python -m build
FAQs
Visualise the wifi devices around you communicating to each other in their own networks
We found that wifigaze demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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