1 .TH HOSTAPD 8 "April 7, 2005" hostapd hostapd
3 hostapd \- IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
6 [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>
8 This manual page documents briefly the
13 is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers.
14 It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
15 The current version supports Linux (Host AP, madwifi, Prism54 drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).
18 is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication.
20 supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend,
25 A summary of options is included below.
26 For a complete description, run
28 from the command line.
34 Show more debug messages.
37 Show even more debug messages.
40 Run daemon in the background.
46 Include key data in debug messages.
49 Include timestamps in some debug messages.
56 hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.
58 This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>,
59 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).