| .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, madwifi, 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). |
