Project Summary
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).
In a Nutshell, hostapd...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 167 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 5 days ago
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