Proportionality Options

By default, mana will try to Hack The Planet^tm, that is to say, it will indiscriminately target every device and rebroadcast every probed for network. If you enable loud mode, even more so.

You can limit this.

SSID Whitelisting

You can white list only specific SSIDs to be rebroadcast and ignore any others. This is done by adding the following option to your hostapd.conf:

mana_ssid_filter_file=hostapd.ssid_filter

Where hostapd.ssid_filter is a file containing a list of SSIDs, one per line e.g.:

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Practically, it’s usually a good idea to first run without the whitelist, but with SSID logging on, so you can get a feel for what’s out there and prep a whitelist. You could also check WiGLE for potential target networks beforehand.