Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing : Beginner's Guide

Time for action – beating MAC filters

Let's follow the instructions to get started:

1. Let's first configure our access point to use MAC filtering and then add the client MAC address of the victim laptop. The settings pages on my router looks as follows:
   
2. Once MAC filtering is enabled, only the allowed MAC address will be able to successfully authenticate with the access point. If we try to connect to the access point from a machine with a non-whitelisted MAC address, the connection will fail.
3. Behind the scenes, the access point is sending Authentication failure messages to the client. The packet trace resembles the following:
4. In order to beat MAC filters, ...