1.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd June 16, 2005 28.Dt HOSTAPD_CLI 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm hostapd_cli 32.Nd text-based frontend program for interacting with 33.Xr hostapd 8 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Ar commands 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility 41is a text-based frontend program for interacting with 42.Xr hostapd 8 . 43It is used to query the current status. 44.Pp 45The 46.Nm 47utility 48can show the 49current authentication status, 50dot11 and dot1x MIBs, etc. 51.Pp 52The 53.Nm 54utility 55supports two modes: interactive and command line. 56Both modes share the same command set. 57.Pp 58Interactive mode is started when 59.Nm 60is executed without any parameters on the command line. 61Commands are then entered from the controlling terminal in 62response to the 63.Nm 64prompt. 65In command line mode, the same commands are 66entered as command line arguments. 67.Sh COMMANDS 68The following commands may be supplied on the command line 69or at a prompt when operating interactively. 70.Bl -tag -width indent 71.It Ic mib 72Report MIB variables (dot1x, dot11) for the current interface. 73.It Ic sta Ar addr 74Report the MIB variables for the associated station with MAC address 75.Ar addr . 76.It Ic all_sta 77Report the MIB variables for all associated stations. 78.It Ic help 79Show usage help. 80.It Ic interface Op Ar ifname 81Show available interfaces and/or set the current interface 82when multiple are available. 83.It Ic level Ar debug_level 84Change the debugging level in 85.Xr hostapd 8 . 86Larger numbers generate more messages. 87.It Ic license 88Display the full 89license for 90.Nm . 91.It Ic quit 92Exit 93.Nm . 94.El 95.Sh SEE ALSO 96.Xr hostapd.conf 5 , 97.Xr hostapd 8 98.Sh HISTORY 99The 100.Nm 101utility first appeared in 102.Fx 6.0 . 103.Sh AUTHORS 104The 105.Nm 106utility was written by 107.An Jouni Malinen Aq jkmaline@cc.hut.fi . 108This manual page is derived from the 109.Pa README 110file included in the 111.Nm hostapd 112distribution. 113