ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Sep 06, 2015 8:36 am #27928 Hi

I am working on a research project which is aimed at social behaviour measuring of people.

One aspect of this project is capture MAC address of smartphones nearby without actually connecting to them. The concept is similar to airmon-ng and airbase-ng which I have been using but it requires a laptop to work (not handy to carry everywhere).

So with this esp8266, I am thinking to do the same. Does esp8266 support monitor mode? or maybe promiscuous mode?

Alternatively, is it possible to extract client MAC address from Probe Request packets?

- Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:15 am #40226 Yes, it is possible to go into monitor mode.
Check out wifi_promiscuous_enable and wifi_set_promiscuous_rx_cb.

It is called "promiscuous", but while its not connected to a network it is essentially monitor mode.

- Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:38 am #53126 hello,

i am new to this forum, i would like to know if it's possible by now, to get the MAC or IP address of smart phones... in promiscuous(sniffing) mode, am working on project which need of this feature, i would appreciate if anybody can help me by posting demo or sample code.

Regards