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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 back‐
       ground 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)

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