BSD Ports

net/hostapd-devel 2024.06.20 DragonFly

IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
net
Package size
248.1 KiB, 684.0 KiB installed

Description

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).

Add the following to /etc/rc.conf to use the ports version instead of the base version:

hostapd\_program="/usr/local/sbin/hostapd"

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlynet/hostapd-devel2024.06.20
FreeBSDnet/hostapd-devel2026.09.22_2
HardenedBSDnet/hostapd-devel2026.09.22_2
GhostBSDnet/hostapd-devel2026.08.09_2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install hostapd-devel

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net/hostapd-devel && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Add the following to /etc/rc.conf to use the ports version instead
of the base version:

    hostapd_program="/usr/local/sbin/hostapd"