hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator hostapd [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)> 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, 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 .

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.

hostapd_cli (1). 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).