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Modes Of Operation
Attention - End of Life Product
The WiFi Pineapple Nano & Tetra devices have reached end-of-life status and are no longer sold.
If you are looking for information on modern WiFi Pineapple devices such as the WiFi Pineapple Mark VII, please start here
If you are looking for information on modern WiFi Pineapple devices such as the WiFi Pineapple Mark VII, please start here
Most commonly a WiFi radio will operate in one of three modes: Master, Managed, Monitor. Additional modes include ad-hoc, mesh and repeater and are both less common and outside the scope of this guide.
An Access Point (or simply AP) will operate in Master Mode while client devices operate in Managed Mode. Monitor mode, sometimes called RFMON for Radio Frequency MONitor, is a special mode that allows the radio to passively monitor all traffic in the given area.
Keep in mind that not all radios have each of these capabilities and a radio can only operate in one mode at a time.