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1.TH HOSTAPD 8 "April 7, 2005" hostapd hostapd
2.SH NAME
3hostapd \- 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
8This manual page documents briefly the
9.B hostapd
10daemon.
11.PP
12.B hostapd
13is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers.
14It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
01b32d5e 15The current version supports Linux (Host AP, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).
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17.B hostapd
18is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication.
19.B hostapd
20supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend,
21.BR hostapd_cli ,
22is included with
23.BR hostapd .
24.SH OPTIONS
25A summary of options is included below.
26For a complete description, run
27.BR hostapd
28from the command line.
29.TP
30.B \-h
31Show usage.
32.TP
33.B \-d
34Show more debug messages.
35.TP
36.B \-dd
37Show even more debug messages.
38.TP
39.B \-B
40Run daemon in the background.
41.TP
42.B \-P <PID file>
43Path to PID file.
44.TP
45.B \-K
46Include key data in debug messages.
47.TP
48.B \-t
49Include timestamps in some debug messages.
50.TP
51.B \-v
52Show hostapd version.
53.SH SEE ALSO
54.BR hostapd_cli (1).
55.SH AUTHOR
56hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.
57.PP
58This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>,
59for the Debian project (but may be used by others).