hostapd

Open Wireless Linux version of hostapd
Developer(s)	John Gordon
Stable release	none yet / Date: N/A
Repository	w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/hostapd <img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"> ;
Operating system	Linux
Type	WLAN tools
License	GPL version 2
Website	OWL hostapd

OpenBSD's hostapd
Developer(s)	Reyk Floeter
Stable release	3.9 / May 1, 2006
Repository	w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/hostapd <img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"> ;
Operating system	OpenBSD
Type	WLAN tools
License	BSD
Website	OpenBSD's hostapd

Jouni Malinen's hostapd
Developer(s)	Jouni Malinen & others
Stable release	2.10 / 16 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Repository	w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/hostapd <img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"> ;
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	WLAN tools
License	BSD
Website	w1.fi/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.

Jouni Malinen's 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.^[1] 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,^[2] Prism54^[3] and some of the drivers which use the kernel's mac80211 subsystem), QNX, FreeBSD (net80211), and DragonFlyBSD.^[4]

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

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.

References

^ [1], Creating A Wireless Hotspot with Linux
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2009-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Wolfy Casino". Archived from the original on 2015-01-17.
^ [2], Linux Wireless Wiki

External links

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

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[hotspot-1] [1], Creating A Wireless Hotspot with Linux

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2009-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Wolfy Casino". Archived from the original on 2015-01-17.

[wiki-4] [2], Linux Wireless Wiki

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