So I had been working on a project that is able to setup an Access Point and redirect traffic through another interface (can be wired or wireless).
Now there have always been issues between hostapd and wpa_supplicant, I needed to create an access point on one wireless interface and route it through another wireless interface. But while that interface is managed by network-manager hostapd is unable to start an access point on that interface.
Ways to work around: I can run these commands and kill wpa_supplicant
sudo nmcli nm wifi off
sudo rfkill unblock wlan
But this turns off all wireless interfaces and I need one connected to the internet so I can route the traffic.
Another work around, which I used and is a lot more elegant: adding this line to the NetworkManager.conf file
[keyfile]
#unmanaged-devices=mac:d8:5d:4c:9a:72:60
This actually worked flawlessly! Until a recent update of hostapd to version 1:2.5-2+v2.4-3
Are there any other workarounds so that my wireless interface is not managed by wpa_supplicant?
I'm running Kali Linux.
