hostapd

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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, RADIUS client, EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • Linux
  • BSD
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  • wep
  • wpa
  • wpa2
  • connectify-alternative
  • connectify-linux

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  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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hostapd was added to AlternativeTo by rabiny on Dec 18, 2011 and this page was last updated Nov 27, 2014.
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What is hostapd?

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, RADIUS client, EAP server, 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 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.