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HOSTAPD(8) hostapd HOSTAPD(8) 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 sup- ports Linux (Host AP, 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 sup- ports 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. SEE ALSO hostapd_cli(1). 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). hostapd April 7, 2005 HOSTAPD(8)
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