TRENDnet TEW-637AP 3.01 manual WPA/WPA2-Personal, WPA/WPA2-Enterprise, WPA/WPA2 mixed environment

WPA/WPA2-Personal

This option uses Wi-Fi Protected Access with a Pre-Shared Key (PSK).

Pre-Shared Key: The key is entered as a pass-phrase of up to 63 alphanumeric characters in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format at both ends of the wireless connection. It cannot be shorter than eight characters, although for proper security it needs to be of ample length and should not be a commonly known phrase. This phrase is used to generate session keys that are unique for each wireless client.

WPA/WPA2-Enterprise

This option works with a RADIUS Server to authenticate wireless clients. Wireless clients should have established the necessary credentials before attempting to authenticate to the Server through this Gateway. Furthermore, it may be necessary to configure the RADIUS Server to allow this Gateway to authenticate users.

Authentication Timeout: Amount of time before a client will be required to re-authenticate.

RADIUS Server IP Address: The IP address of the authentication server.

RADIUS Server Port: The port number used to connect to the authentication server.

RADIUS Server Shared Secret: A pass-phrase that must match with the authentication server.

WPA/WPA2 mixed environment

For those WPA2 stations, they will use AES for unicast. For those WPA stations, they will use TKIP for unicast. But for multicast all WPA and WPA2 stations have to use the same key, and that will be TKIP, because WPA station only knows about TKIP, WPA2 is new standard, so it is defined to backward support TKIP on multicast.

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