You might find that they will conflict with Kismet. We suggest that you don’t run any other network projects unless you know what you’re doing.

It’s important to note that Kismet will work with WiFi, Bluetooth, and some software-defined radio (SDR) hardware. Please note that for this tutorial you cannot use the Raspberry Pi’s inbuilt WiFi due to it lacking the functionality to be put into a “monitoring” mode. It also will monitor information such as the frequencies they operate on and other things. Kismet will read in information about devices and monitor their packet traffic. This project relies on the Kismet software that utilizes your network interfaces such as your WiFi adapter and your Bluetooth adapter to scan for all available devices across all available frequencies. Afterward, you can install Ntpong with the required packages and once you perform some configuration, you can access the Ntpong dashboard using your device IP address.In this Raspberry Pi network scanner project, we will be showing you how you can utilize a software package called Kismet.

You can set it up on your Raspberry Pi by installing the Ntop deb package from the official website and then installing it using the apt installer. Ntopng provides you real-time network usage information of your device’s network interface on your browser. With the dashboard successfully appearing on your browser tab, you can now have a complete overview of your device’s network interface. You can also choose “System” instead of “wlan0” to know about your system information on your browser. In the next window, you have to change the default password to make your network information secure and once you are done, click on the “ Change Password” button to apply the changes.Īfterwards, you will be able to access the Ntopng dashboard where you will find several network related information of your Raspberry Pi device’s network interface.

Provide the default username and password as admin and select the “Login” button. Now, open any browser and use the address to open the login page of Ntopng.

If the above status outputs “active (running)” status, it confirms that your configurations are correct and you are good to access the Ntopng dashboard. You should also apply the following command to check the status of Ntopng service on your Raspberry Pi.

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