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[edit] Jouni Malinen's hostapd

Jouni Malinen's hostapd
Developed by	Jouni Malinen & others
Latest release	0.5.10 / 19 February 2008
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	WLAN tools
License	GPLv2/BSD
Website	hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd

Jouni Malinen's 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, Prism54 drivers), FreeBSD (net80211), and DragonFlyBSD.

DragonFlyBSD commit

[edit] OpenBSD's hostapd

OpenBSD's hostapd
Developed by	Reyk Floeter
Latest release	3.9 / May 1, 2006
OS	OpenBSD
Genre	WLAN tools
License	BSD
Website	[1]

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.