hostapd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostapd

hostapd (host access point daemon) is a user space daemon software enabling a network interface card to act as an access point and authentication server. There are three implementations: Jouni Malinen's hostapd, OpenBSD's hostapd and Devicescape's hostapd.

Contents

• 1Jouni Malinen's hostapd[1]
• 2OpenBSD's hostapd
• 3Devicescape's hostapd
• 4See also
• 5References
• 6External links

Jouni Malinen's hostapd[1][edit]

Jouni Malinen's hostapd

Developer(s)	Jouni Malinen & others
Stable release	2.10 / 16 January 2022 (8 months ago)
Repository	w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/hostapd
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	WLAN tools
License	BSD
Website	w1.fi/hostapd

Jouni Malinen's hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It can be used to create a wireless hotspot using a Linux computer.[2] 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, Prism54 and some of the drivers which use the kernel's mac80211 subsystem), QNX, FreeBSD (net80211), and DragonFlyBSD.

OpenBSD's hostapd[edit]

OpenBSD's hostapd

Developer(s)	Reyk Floeter
Stable release	3.9 / May 1, 2006
Repository	w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/hostapd
Operating system	OpenBSD
Type	WLAN tools
License	BSD
Website	OpenBSD's hostapd

OpenBSD's hostapd is a user space daemon that helps to improve roaming and monitoring of OpenBSD-based wireless networks. It implements Inter Access Point Protocol (IAPP) for exchanging station association information between access points. It can trigger a set of actions like frame injection or logging when receiving specified IEEE 802.11 frames.

Devicescape's hostapd[edit]

Open Wireless Linux version of hostapd

Developer(s)	John Gordon
Stable release	none yet / Date: N/A
Repository	w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/hostapd
Operating system	Linux
Type	WLAN tools
License	GPL version 2
Website	OWL hostapd

The Open Wireless Linux version of hostapd. It is kept as close as possible to the original open source release, but with OWL specific packaging and defaults. The website appears to be dead (April 2013), probably as the project itself.

See also[edit]

• HostAP

References[edit]

1. ^ [1], Linux Wireless Wiki
2. ^ [2], Creating A Wireless Hotspot with Linux

External links[edit]

• DragonFlyBSD commit
• Undeadly Article
• hostapd(8) – OpenBSD System Manager's Manual
• hostapd and wpa_supplicant

HostAP

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HostAP

Developer(s)	Jouni Malinen & others
Stable release	0.6.9 / March 23, 2009
Operating system	Linux
Type	WLAN device drivers
License	GPLv2
Website	w1.fi

HostAP was one of the most popular IEEE 802.11 device drivers for Linux and since November 2016 is officially obsolete in Linux kernel.[1] It works with cards using the Conexant (formerly Intersil) Prism 2/2.5/3 chipset and support Host AP mode, which allows a WLAN card to perform all the functions of a wireless access point.

The driver code was written by Jouni Malinen, hired by Atheros in 2008,[2] and was included into the main kernel tree in Linux 2.6.14.

See also[edit]

• Hostapd
• wpa supplicant
• Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG AP Driver for Linux, an open source 802.11 b/g access point driver for the ipw2200 and ipw2915

References[edit]

1. ^ "Kernel/Git/Stable/Linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree".
2. ^ "news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for - madwifi-project.org - Trac".

External links[edit]

• HostAP Homepage
• Network overview by Rami Rosen