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Product introduction – Asus WL-330 User Manual

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ASUS Pocket Wireless Access Point (WL-330)

Product introduction

Access Point

Single IP bridge environment

In a single IP bridge environment, the device connects to an access point
using a single IP address.

In this setup, the MAC cloning feature may be enabled to support certain
applications and devices, such as Xbox and PlayStation

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game consoles, that

use the MAC address to communicate with other devices. MAC cloning allows
the ASUS Pocket Wireless AP to to communicate with other devices in a
wireless network using the MAC address of the host computer instead of its
own.

Multiple IP bridge environment

In a multiple IP bridge environment, the ASUS Pocket Wireless AP connects
two or more wired devices to a wireless network from a hub or a switch.

Hub

Access Point

You must disable the MAC cloning feature when you set the device in
Ethernet adapter mode under this environment. Enabling MAC cloning
under this environment results to undefined and incorrect bridge
behavior.