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Chapter 6 – Bridge Modes
Advantages:
1.
Almost any number of LAN clients can be connected to a HG G
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once.
2.
Good transparency of the LAN clients towards the WLAN without configuration.
Disadvantages:
1.
The HG G
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These IP addresses must be within the same network.
2.
Problems in some WLAN infrastructures with centralized controllers (no acces
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sibility to the LAN clients from the WLAN side).
6.4 MWLC Mode
With the MWLC mode, all restrictions regarding the availability, IP address assign
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ment and transparency especially in applications with multiple LAN clients are
solved. In this mode all data packets received from the LAN clients are tunneled by
the HG G
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stationary network side. The master HG G
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packets and sends them into the stationary network. The HG G
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WLAN side is working in MWLC slave mode and the HG G
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ary side is working in MWLC master mode.
Figure 52
Bridge Modes: MWLC mode example configuration
In this mode it is irrelevant which IP addresses the clients have in relation to the
HG G
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the stationary network with their own MAC. Since the MWLC master plays a central
