hostapd is a user space daemon. There are three: Jouni Malinen's hostapd, OpenBSD's hostapd and Devicescape's hostapd.
[edit] Jouni Malinen's 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 and some of the drivers which use the kernel's mac80211 subsystem), FreeBSD (net80211), and DragonFlyBSD.
[edit] OpenBSD's hostapd
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.
[edit] Devicescape's hostapd
The Open Wireless Linux version of hostapd. This is will be kept as close as possible to the original open source release, but with OWL specific packaging and defaults.
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