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- .TH HOSTAPD 8 "April 7, 2005" hostapd hostapd
- .SH NAME
- hostapd \- IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B hostapd
- [\-hdBKtv] [\-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents briefly the
- .B hostapd
- daemon.
- .PP
- .B 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).
- .B hostapd
- is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication.
- .B hostapd
- supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend,
- .BR hostapd_cli ,
- is included with
- .BR hostapd .
- .SH OPTIONS
- A summary of options is included below.
- For a complete description, run
- .BR hostapd
- from the command line.
- .TP
- .B \-h
- Show usage.
- .TP
- .B \-d
- Show more debug messages.
- .TP
- .B \-dd
- Show even more debug messages.
- .TP
- .B \-B
- Run daemon in the background.
- .TP
- .B \-P <PID file>
- Path to PID file.
- .TP
- .B \-K
- Include key data in debug messages.
- .TP
- .B \-t
- Include timestamps in some debug messages.
- .TP
- .B \-v
- Show hostapd version.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- .BR hostapd_cli (1).
- .SH AUTHOR
- hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.
- .PP
- This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>,
- for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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