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author | Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-03-07 05:47:04 +0000 |
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committer | Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-03-07 05:47:04 +0000 |
commit | 89f5e593c04599b48d6b59a8c4841676a988ac4f (patch) | |
tree | dacc7977efdefefb8b105113edeb5215c0e01234 /contrib/hostapd/hostapd.8 | |
parent | fd7895c8ddcea473b398cad289b9f26e9612fc48 (diff) | |
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Import of hostapd 0.4.8
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svn path=/vendor/hostapd/dist/; revision=156373
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diff --git a/contrib/hostapd/hostapd.8 b/contrib/hostapd/hostapd.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8b02497803f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/hostapd/hostapd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.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 +[-hdBKt] <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, Prism54 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 \-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 <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>. +.PP +This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, +for the Debian project (but may be used by others). |