Base radio MAC vs ethernet mac

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Someone please shed the light or point me to a doc explaining the difference between a base radio mac address and an ethernet mac address on an AP?

thanks.

[mark.j.hodge · Accepted solution]

A Cisco access point acts as a bridge, therefore it has to ( sometimes three # )interfaces;

Ethernet address connected to the switch

Radio adress for the clients to associate with.

# If the access point has an 802.11a radio it has a different address to the 802.11b/g radio

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