BSD Ports

net/hostapd210 2.10_10 GhostBSD

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

System
GhostBSD
Repository
GhostBSD
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
net
Package size
249.0 KiB, 644.6 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"

Install

Binary package:

pkg install hostapd210

Dependencies

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"

===>   NOTICE:

This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:

Unsupported by upstream.

It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2026-09-30.