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Outdoor Router P-380 Users Guide

4.2 Operating Modes

The P-380 can work in different operating modes:

 bridge

 access point (AP)

 AP router

 client router

 client bridge

Even if a P-380 is connected to a wired network on one side and to a wireless network on the other

side in all operating modes, there are some significant differences. The operating modes differ from

each other by the possibilities to connect single or multiple stations in the same or in diffent IP

subnets:

 How many wireless connections are allowed?

 How many wired connections are allowed?

 Are connections possible to between different IP subnets?

 Which IP addresses are used by the device?

 To which wireless types can the P-380 connect remotely?

 Is the wired network or the wireless network supposed to be the local area network (LAN)?

The last point is a key for understanding the IP settings including DHCP settings, IP masquerading or

network address translation (NAT) and IP routing. The terms LAN and WAN depend on the devices

operating mode.

Internet

Wired network

(WAN)

Wirless network

(LAN)

WANLAN

Wirless network

(WAN)

Wired network

(LAN)

P-380 in

AP router

mode

P-380 in

client router

mode

Internet

Gateway

at ISPs site

IP subnet 192.168.100.0 IP subnet 80.146.72.0IP subnet 192.168.99.0IP subnet 192.168.200.0

Building 2Building 1

Figure 1 – Meaning of LAN and WAN in a P-380 topology

In the figure shown above we connect a subnet 192.168.200.0 in building 1 using a P-380 in client

router mode and a P-380 in AP router mode to a subnet 192.168.100.0 in building 2. On the client

routers side, the wired stations build his local network LAN, the wireless subnet 192.168.99.0

therefore must be the WAN. On the other hand the AP router assumes his wired network to be the

WAN, where it can find an internet gateway. In this case, the wireless network builds up the AP

routers LAN. Going one step further, the internet gateway in the companies building 2 will take the

wired network 192.168.100.0 for LAN and the ISPs subnet for WAN.

The following sections will give a short introduction in each of the operating modes.

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