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hostapd is an open source program for creating software access points with multiple authentication backends. It needs a wireless network device/adapter that is supported. It supports most of the features of a hardware access point.

hostapd is an open source program for creating software access points with multiple authentication backends. It needs a wireless network device/adapter that is supported. It supports most of the features of a hardware access point.

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How to link hostapd to physical wireless card via ethernet?

I want to separate the software and physical part of an access point into two different equipments. As a first step, I have installed hostapd in an Ubuntu server machine. How can we link hostapd to a physical wireless card located in another machine…
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KVM USB Passthrough Performance

I have a CentOS 6.4 KVM host. I also have an ESXi 5.1 host. Under ESXi I am running a Ubuntu 12.04 guest with a USB TP-Link WN722N Wifi dongle. The Ubuntu guest runs an access point using hostapd. The setup under ESXi works swimmingly. Using the…
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Using iptables and hostapd to create isolated guest AP

I'm trying to setup my raspberry pi as an access point for guests to be able to connect to, that should allow them internet access but not access to the rest of my network, the pi also is my DHCP and DNS server, for which I am using hostapd, dnsmasq…
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How to bypass DNSMASQ traffic redirect (address=/#/10.0.0.1) after Captive Portal Authentication?

I wanted to write a captive portal from scratch using the following: hostapd v2.10 to setup my wlan0 as an AP and eth0 is connected to the internet router. #/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=MyWIFI …
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Hostapd failed to start - Failed to initialize interface

I'm trying to set up hostapd on linux machine as a network authenticator with 802.1x. I've been mostly following this guide, with some adaptations since I'm using Ubuntu Jammy instead of RHEL, and using veth interfaces in the bridge instead of…
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Hostapd RADIUS Attributes - FramedIP

So I recently started playing with Hostapd and I finally got 802.1x working. The issue is, I have an authenticating proxy server where I'm sending my RADIUS Acct and while it's logging the authenticated user, it's not logging an IP address. So I…
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hostapd: assigning static sub-IP based on MAC

I've set up an access point / wifi-repeater via hostapd on my raspberry pi using this incredible tutorial. Now I want to ensure that the connecting clients have a "static" IP in the subnet. Example: Client with MAC 0d:78:b9:5c:1d:b6 connects to the…
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DNSmasq Forward DNS on Multiple Interfaces

I am using hostapd to setup WiFi hotspot networks on my Ubuntu 18.04. I am using this guide to setup multiple SSIDs on my WiFi interface. And to enable DHCP on the hotspot networks, I use dnsmasq. I run a separate instance of dnsmasq for each SSID.…
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How to view dnsmasq client MAC addresses dynamically?

If I have already known the client IP, I know there's /var/log/dnsmasq.log and it contains logs such as Jun 13 12:22:42 dnsmasq-dhcp[499]: DHCPACK(wlan0) 172.24.1.110 34:12:98:11:80:bd ones-iPad Jun 13 13:19:44 dnsmasq-dhcp[499]:…
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Why is hostapd not working?

I have been working on getting hosapd work for some time. The guides I have followed will be attached on the bottom. So first things first. As far as I can tell, my network card does support AP mode. Please correct me if it…
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Hostapd Wifi 6 channel not enabled though shown in iw list in Germany using Debian bookworm

I am trying to set up a Wifi 6 Access point with an Intel AX210 card on Debian Bookworm. My configuration of the hostapd.conf file looks…
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