Monoprice 8745 Wireless N PoE Access Point - Manual (Page 34)

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authentication port of the Radius server.
The default is 1812.
 Shared Secret: Enter the shared key
for authentication on the Radius server,
using 8-63 ASCII characters.
 Session Timeout: The amount of time
that a session key remains active before
re-authentication is required. The
default is 3600 seconds.
802.1x Authentication
802.1x is a Port-based authentication protocol for
use when a RADIUS server is used to provide user
authentication. The port can be either a physical
port or logical port, such as a VLAN. For wireless
LAN users, a port is just a channel. The final
purpose of 802.1x authentication is to check if the
port can be used. If the port is authenticated
successfully, you can open this port, which allows
all the messages to pass. If the port isn’t
authenticated successfully, you can keep this port
"disabled", which just allows the 802.1x
authentication protocol messages to pass.
Selecting 802.1x displays the following options: