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1 | .TH HOSTAPD 8 "April 7, 2005" hostapd hostapd |
2 | .SH NAME | |
3 | hostapd \- IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator | |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
5 | .B hostapd | |
bffc384c | 6 | [\-hdBKtv] [\-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)> |
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7 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
8 | This manual page documents briefly the | |
9 | .B hostapd | |
10 | daemon. | |
11 | .PP | |
12 | .B hostapd | |
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. | |
01b32d5e | 15 | The current version supports Linux (Host AP, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211). |
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16 | |
17 | .B hostapd | |
18 | is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. | |
19 | .B hostapd | |
20 | supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, | |
21 | .BR hostapd_cli , | |
22 | is included with | |
23 | .BR hostapd . | |
24 | .SH OPTIONS | |
25 | A summary of options is included below. | |
26 | For a complete description, run | |
27 | .BR hostapd | |
28 | from the command line. | |
29 | .TP | |
30 | .B \-h | |
31 | Show usage. | |
32 | .TP | |
33 | .B \-d | |
34 | Show more debug messages. | |
35 | .TP | |
36 | .B \-dd | |
37 | Show even more debug messages. | |
38 | .TP | |
39 | .B \-B | |
40 | Run daemon in the background. | |
41 | .TP | |
42 | .B \-P <PID file> | |
43 | Path to PID file. | |
44 | .TP | |
45 | .B \-K | |
46 | Include key data in debug messages. | |
47 | .TP | |
48 | .B \-t | |
49 | Include timestamps in some debug messages. | |
50 | .TP | |
51 | .B \-v | |
52 | Show hostapd version. | |
53 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
54 | .BR hostapd_cli (1). | |
55 | .SH AUTHOR | |
56 | hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>. | |
57 | .PP | |
58 | This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, | |
59 | for the Debian project (but may be used by others). |