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<manpage name="waproamd" section="8" desc="Wireless Access Point Roaming Daemon for WLAN IEEE 802.11">
<synopsis>
<cmd>waproamd [<arg>options</arg>]</cmd>
</synopsis>
<description> <p>waproamd is a roaming daemon for wireless NICs
supporting the Linux wireless extensions. It is intended to
configure the WEP keys according to the networks found.</p>
<p>As long as the local NIC is not associated to any wireless
network waproamd scans iteratively for them. If one is detected,
a script in <file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/</file> named
after the MAC address of the access point is called. If this
script is not existent,
<file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/default</file> is called
instead. The first argument to this script is "start". If the
association is lost, the same script is run with the argument
"stop". While the NIC is associated no scans are issued.</p>
<p>waproamd is intended to be used together with
ifplugd. Whenever an association succeeds, ifplugd detects it
and runs further configuration commands for it.</p>
<p>If multiple WLANs are detected at the same time, the network
which is detected by the hardware first is selected. However,
networks where a matching script exists take precedence.</p>
<p>waproamd requires a network driver supporting the Linux
wireless extensions v15 or newer. The driver needs to support
scanning for wireless networks, which may be tested by running
"iwlist scan". If the driver supports the wireless event
subsystem, waproamd may use it to improve latency
behaviour. It is not required, however.</p>
</description>
<options>
<option>
<p><opt>-n | --no-daemon</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>
Do not daemonize (for debugging) (default: off)
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-s | --no-syslog</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>
Do not use syslog, use stdout instead (for debugging) (default: off).
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-i | --iface=</opt><arg>IFACE</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>
Specify the wireless network interface (default: wlan0)
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-w | --wait-on-fork</opt></p>
<optdesc><p> When daemonizing, wait until the background
process finished with the initial association detection.
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option> <p><opt>-M | --monitor</opt></p> <optdesc><p>Don't fail
when the network interface is not available, instead use
NETLINK to monitor device avaibility. The is useful for PCMCIA
devices and similar.</p></optdesc> </option>
<option> <p><opt>-e | --no-event</opt></p> <optdesc><p>Don't use
the wireless event API (as used by <manref name="iwevent"
section="8"/>), instead poll for association information. Some
network drivers do not support this relatively new feature of
the Linux wireless extension. Sadly the support of this feature
cannot be detected automatically.</p></optdesc> </option>
<option>
<p><opt>-t | --scan-interval=</opt><arg>SECS</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>Specify the time between scans for wireless networks.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-p | --poll-intervall=</opt><arg>SECS</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>When using -e, specify the time between association status polls.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>
Show help
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-k | --kill</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>
Kill a running daemon (Specify -i to select the daemon instance to kill)
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-c | --check-running</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>
Check if a daemon is running for a given network interface. Sets the return value to 0 if a daemon is already running or to 255 if not.
</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-v | --version</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>
Show version
</p></optdesc>
</option>
</options>
<section name="Files">
<p><file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/waproamd.conf</file>: this file is sourced
by the init script <file>@sysconfdir@/init.d/waproamd</file> and
contains the interface to be monitored and the options to be
used.</p>
<p><file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/<AP MAC
address></file>: this is called whenever a wireless network
controlled by an AP with a matching address is detected. The MAC
address is formatted lowercase. Takes the same arguments as the
following script:</p>
<p><file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/default</file>: this is
the script which is called whenever no script named after the
AP MAC address is found. It takes a single argument: either
"start" or "stop". An environment variable AP is set to the
MAC address of the access point found. An environment variable
IFACE is set to the network interface name. The default
implementation of this script looks for a file
<file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/keys/<AP MAC
address>.wep</file>. If it exists its contents is used to
set the WEP key of the NIC. Otherwise the script looks for a
file <file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/keys/<AP
MAC address>.aes</file>. If it exists the AES WEP rekeying daemon
<manref name="aeswepd" section="8"/> is called. Otherwise WEP
encryption is disabled.</p>
<p><file>/var/run/waproamd.<iface>.pid</file>: the pid file
for waproamd.</p>
</section>
<section name="Signals">
<p><arg>SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGTQUIT</arg> waproamd will quit. This is issued by passing -k to waproamd.</p>
<p><arg>SIGHUP</arg> waproamd will rescan for available networks immediately.</p>
</section>
<section name="Author">
<p>waproamd was written by Lennart Poettering
<@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>. waproamd is available
at <url
href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/>
</p>
</section>
<section name="See also">
<p>
<manref name="ifplugd" section="8"/>, <manref name="aeswepd" section="8"/>, <manref name="iwconfig" section="8"/>, <manref name="iwlist" section="8"/>
</p>
</section>
<section name="Comments">
<p>This man page was written using <manref name="xmltoman" section="1"
href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by Oliver Kurth.</p>
</section>
</manpage>
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