HOSTAPD

Section: hostapd (8)
Updated: April 7, 2005
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NAME

hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

SYNOPSIS

hostapd [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the hostapd daemon.

hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports Linux (Host AP, madwifi, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).

hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is included with hostapd.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, run hostapd from the command line.

-h: Show usage.
-d: Show more debug messages.
-dd: Show even more debug messages.
-B: Run daemon in the background.
-P <PID file>: Path to PID file.
-K: Include key data in debug messages.
-t: Include timestamps in some debug messages.
-v: Show hostapd version.

AUTHOR

hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.

This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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