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Is it possible to put my AirPort in access point mode, so it creates an infrastructure (ie, non-ad-hoc) network from the command line on OS X 10.8?

Similar to using System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet -> Share from … to computers using WiFi.

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This won't answer your question but might be of interest: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resource‌​s/airport – Max Ried Dec 31 '12 at 6:55
Unfortunately airport doesn't seem to do anything related. In fact, airport -s doesn't show anything when running in hostap mode. – David Wolever Dec 31 '12 at 7:40

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After some hours of digging through the internet, it seems that the only way to put an airport in HostAP ("software base station") mode in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is to programatically call a the internal, undocumented, startHostAPModeWithSSID method.

I've updated the one example I could find online, and it does seem to work, with the one caveat that only WEP, not WPA, can be used: https://gist.github.com/4418079

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