hostapd (host access point daemon) is a user space

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software enabling a

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to act as an access point and authentication server. There are three implementations: Jouni Malinen's hostapd,

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's hostapd and Devicescape's hostapd.

Jouni Malinen's hostapd

Jouni Malinen's hostapd is a user space

for access point and authentication servers. It can be used to create a wireless hotspot using a Linux computer.
Creating A Wireless Hotspot with Linux It implements

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access point management, IEEE 802.1X/ WPA/

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/ EAP Authenticators,

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client, EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports

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( Host AP, MadWifi, Prism54 and some of the drivers which use the kernel's mac80211 subsystem),

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(net80211), and

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Linux Wireless Wiki

OpenBSD's hostapd

OpenBSD's hostapd is a user space daemon that helps to improve roaming and monitoring of

-based wireless networks. It implements Inter-Access Point Protocol, 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

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.

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DragonFlyBSD commitUndeadly Article
* Wi-Fi OpenBSD {{Linux-stub

Jouni Malinen's hostapd

OpenBSD's hostapd

Devicescape's hostapd

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