hostapd8
Ieee 802.11 ap, ieee 802.1x/wpa/wpa2/eap/radius authenticator
Usage
hostapd [-hdBKtv]
[-P
<PID
file>]
<configuration
file(s)>
Overview
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, 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.
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-h -
Show usage.
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-d -
Show more debug messages.
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-dd -
Show even more debug messages.
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-B -
Run daemon in the background.
- -P <PID file>
-
Path to PID file.
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-K -
Include key data in debug messages.
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-t -
Include timestamps in some debug messages.
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-v -
Show hostapd version.
Releases
12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 5 times.