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 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.

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)