I noticed that once I enter my wifi card into monitor mode the mac address becomes much longer.
Same result whether I use airmon-ng or iwconfig mode monitor to put it into monitor mode.
Could anyone tell me if this is normal? or how I can fix it?
Code:
root@kali:~# ifconfig
wlan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
root@kali:~# airmon-ng check kill
Killing these processes:
PID Name
1706 wpa_supplicant
root@kali:~# airmon-ng start wlan2
No interfering processes found
PHY Interface Driver Chipset
phy3 wlan2 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3572
(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy3]wlan2 on [phy3]wlan2mon)
(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy3]wlan2)
root@kali:~# ifconfig
wlan2mon Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:285 (285.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
root@kali:~#